Talking Matters partners with whānau, communities, practitioners, iwi and government to build and support language-rich environments for children.
A language-rich environment is vibrant and contains all the languages of a family, community or setting in spoken, written, cultural, gestural and artefactual form.
It is the space where children in their first thousand days of life can develop the communication skills they need to thrive as confident, competent and creative communicators.
Our way of working
With these principles as a foundation:
and through strategies that support:
We achieve these outcomes
Enriched language environments
Increased serve and return
Enhanced wellbeing
So that more babies have access to language-rich environments in the first 1000 days.
