After a brief, distilled learning module built on the Brain Story, participants take this "workshop" into their play space and practice the skills during their everyday activities with the children in their care. During this PlayShop, the SPEECHified coach moves around the room, encouraging participants in their roles and showing them how to apply the strategies in real-time to boost speech and language skills. Speech and language skills are foundational for emotional, academic and behavioural success.  

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• Participants will learn to use powerful speech and language-building skills ("SPEECHified skills") applicable to both typically developing children and children with developmental delays. Building language builds strong brains and leads to academic, social and behavioural success.

• Early educators learn these skills in the "Serve and Return" framework.   

• Participants will feel encouraged and reminded of the neurobiological significance of their role to provide high-quality child-caregiver interactions during early child development. 

• Participants will be able to better support speech and language development by being taught to recognize a child's current ability level (not just where they should be for their age) and knowing how to build from there in simple ways.

• Participants learn how to inject speech and language boosting skills naturally into their interactions or activity and to do so more frequently. 

• Participants build self-awareness of interactions patterns that do not support speech and language growth and are supported in identifying which language-building strategies they personally need to practice through self-evaluation. 

• Participants are supported in developing goals and plans to increase their skills to grow in confidence

• Participants become better family allies and can offer improved support for speech and language goals for children who may have delays.