January 5, 2012

Talking about talking: Children's perspectives

Talking and listening are important skills for young children to learn in order to communicate and function within society. Talking and listening also are important precursors for reading and writing when children attend school. Today Hannah Wilkin (Charles Sturt University) and Elissa Shand (University of Newcastle) began working with me on the Talking about Talking research project. The overarching aim of this research is to listen to typically developing young children’s perspectives about their talking and listening, in order to facilitate educational transition practices between the early childhood setting (where talking and listening are the focus) to the school setting (where talking and listening practices evolve into writing and reading practices). The secondary aim of this research is to compare these typically developing children’s perspectives about talking and listening with those of 143 children with speech impairment. 

Hannah Wilkin, Sharynne, and Elissa Shand