Baby Talk and Play
Working together with parents and professionals to look in detail at children's behaviour and early language development.
Parents
Baby Talk and Play offers a fun way of working together with families to help them better understand how children are communicating from birth . By looking in detail with Mums and Dads at their child's behaviour, the aim is to support the developing communicative relationship and be clear about what they can do at home to support it. It is also a space for families to support one another and share their experiences together.
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Individual and small group courses are available.
'baby talk and play sessions were the best baby sessions I ever did, by far' -Carly Holiday-June 2020
Early Years Professionals
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to book whole staff training, onsite consultancy, conference/guest speaking or to register your interest in the Let's Talk Together programme.
Settling In: Training session for early years teams in schools or Early Years settings 'an emotionally connected approach'
Thinking about how we respond to distress and how distress can be communicated through behaviour by both children and families.
'Your training really was exceptional, I really enjoyed it! The way you delivered it, the content, everything about it was great!'
Nursery Manager-Sept 2020-Cybertots at GWQ
About Me
Debbie is a highly skilled trainer with an enthusiastic and accessible approach. She is a qualified and experienced teacher with an MA in work with infants, families and the early years.
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Publications and Reading about BTaP
Debbie Brace
Debbie Brace specialises in the behaviour and early language development of babies and children aged 0-5 and is a highly skilled trainer with a passionate and infectious style.
A qualified teacher with a degree in Drama, Debbie has been working in the early years since 2007. She has an MA specialising in working with families and the emotional development of infants from the world renowned Tavistock
clinic and is a joint winner of The Louise Emanuel Essay Prize (2019), an award presented for an outstanding piece of writing in the area of Infant Mental Health.
She sits on the executive committee of
AIMH UK and is part of the first 1001 days movement advocating that national and local decision makers do more to value and invest in babies’ emotional wellbeing and development in the first 1001 days.
Living in West London with her husband and two teenage boys, Debbie is passionate about empowering parents and carers in their crucial role of communicating and bonding closely with their children.