Those of you who attend our meetings twice a term will have heard me previously talk about the importance of talk and oral language in developing successful speakers, readers and writers. Interestingly, there was an article in the Press last week about New Zealand's first study into early language development. A KidsWords project aims to find out how many words toddlers know by the time they are two and a half years old. If you have a toddler at home and would like to be involved, parents are invited to complete an online questionnaire at www.KidsWords.org and no further involvement is required. This is a University of Canterbury research project, and to date, more than 1300 parents have been surveyed but the aim is to draw conclusions from a nationally representative sample of 3000 children growing up in New Zealand. So why not have your say.
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