TinyTalk Nottingham West

Overview

Thursday various times

Welcome to Tiny Talk West Notts.
My name is Laura and I am your Tiny Talk Baby signing and toddler talking teacher for Beeston, Wollaton, Stapleford and Toton areas. I have a 3 year old and we have been signing together for nearly 2.5 years.

Baby classes are suitable from birth - around 2 and we are all about helping communication between you and your little one helping them to tell you what they’re thinking about BEFORE they can talk. This helps to reduce frustration and guesswork and can create parent ‘a window to their baby’s mind, moulding them into a confident communicator with an early understanding of language AND being able to express themselves. This also helps to create a very happy, chuffed little being - DELIGHTED to be understood!

Our classes are an interactive music class featuring well-known nursery rhymes with actions, specially composed music and instruments. We have hands-on sensory activities which delight your baby and develop all-round communication skills such as vocalising, listening and taking turns. They also stimulate your baby’s senses, encourage their tracking skills and develop their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Each week is a different theme such as bedtime, family or a trip to the park in order to give you the signs you need to share baby’s world and daily routine, using British Sign Language (BSL).

Toddler classes are suitable from 18m - school age and our quality classes continue to develop your child’s communication skills whilst you're having a brilliant time together. It’s the TinyTalk you love, but more physical and interactive to suit developing minds. Toddlers are not meant to sit still! Here we focus on building toddlers’ speech development, confidence and social skills through familiar TinyTalk action songs, stories and puppets your child loves. We learn a wider range of BSL signs and concepts such as counting and colours and have fun language games to make communicating fun!

Arthur is my first child and parenthood was very new to me so I found Tiny Talk to be invaluable. It was somewhere for me where I could make friends, engage and communicate with Arthur and get a snapshot into what he was thinking.

I joined Tiny Talk baby signing when my son was around 6 months old on a recommendation from a friend and haven't looked back since. I really feel that it has helped my son to communicate and also helped me and my family to communicate back to him. I’ll never forget the immense proudness I felt when he did his first sign, and I still feel this every time he learns a new sign or word, which is most days now! His favourite sign has always been Duck and it was one of his first signs as well. He’s still obsessed with them now!

I’ve also found that signing has helped me to avoid tantrums and to get some insight into his likes and dislikes. I remember taking him to the park and he was getting so excited and I wasn’t sure why. Then I noticed he was signing bird! It was so exciting to be able to understand what was making him so happy!