Help Kids Talk is an award winning project within Early Intervention Lisburn (EIL) which is led by the Resurgam Community Development Trust, the SEHSCT Speech and Language Therapy Team, Barnardo’s NI, and Early Intervention Lisburn partnership. Help Kids Talk is funded by the Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council. The Help Kids Talk vision is that “everyone will work together to help kids talk”.

The project is a community-wide initiative and aims to ensure everyone with responsibility for babies, children or young people, prioritises their speech, language, and communication development. This project will result in a positive impact across all areas of a child’s life including educational attainment, mental health and wellbeing, social relationships, and employability later in life.

Help Kids Talk | NI | Lisburn | Speech and Language NI

Help Kids Talk is a community-wide partnership project that supports speech, language and communication development for children and young people aged 0-18 in Northern Ireland.

Resources - Help Kids Talk

In this section you will find advice sheets and checklists on attention & listening, adult-child interaction, supporting children with unclear speech, creating a communication rich environment and using visual supports. You will also find a resource sheet highlighting the benefits of speaking in your home language within your family setting.

Bite Size Series - Help Kids Talk

Welcome to the Help Kids Talk Bitesize Series. In these short recorded clips, we hear from the lived experience of children, young people and adults, with various difficulties relating to speech, language and communication. We also hear from their parents and from professionals, who offer tips and advice about how best to offer support.

Help Kids Talk Parents and Caregivers Training

Help Kids Talk Basic Awareness and Level 1 Training NI. All courses are delivered by highly experienced speech and language therapists.

We run a social media campaign based around 12  key messages of the month, which have been developed as guidance for parents, carers and practitioners to promote early attachment and SLC skills. https://www.facebook.com/helpkidstalk

ASCERT, South Eastern and Western Health and Social Care Trusts have been working to bring support to people at a much earlier stages.

Registration links for September workshops-

• Bend don’t break – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/675869593147?aff=oddtdtcreator
• Self Compassion  – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/677970336527?aff=oddtdtcreator
• Building our Children’s developing brain – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/675873274157?aff=oddtdtcreator

To sign up for sessions from October 2023 to March 2024 see the training brochure from the Western Trust  Health Improvement, Equality and Involvement Training Brochure | Western Health & Social Care Trust (hscni.net)