TinyTalk is making baby signing news

We are delighted to have been asked by NCT to provide entertainment at all the local NCT Cheeky Monkey Tea Parties across the UK!

The NCT Cheeky Monkeys Tea Party is a fun family day out where the kids can play non-stop and have fun till they drop! Mums and Dads can have a cup of tea or coffee and a chat whilst enjoying a fantastic day out.

It's just another sign that TinyTalk is seen by both parents and organisations as the highest-quality provider of baby signing classes in the UK. Visit the NCT's website to find out where and when your nearest Tea Party is taking place!

At TinyTalk and TinySign we believe passionately in our children’s rights. Here are just two of them:

• A right to communicate and to be understood. Our children have a right to communicate and to be understood. This then impacts on their self confidence, self esteem and happiness! At the same time it develops their language skills- both spoken and signed- and their understanding of the world around them. We also get to know our little ones much better too! It’s a win-win-win situation.
  
  
• A right to a future. Our children also have a right to a future and safe-guarding their future begins right now. We all have a duty of care- at both children and world level. That’s why at TinyTalk and at TinySign we’re implementing a whole range of changes with new policies and practices- at company level, teacher level, class level and, we hope, at mum level too!

Watch this space to find out more. If each of us does our tiny bit we can, together, make a huge difference. Let’s make it happen!

Says Daily Telegraph writer Jemima Lewis:

"I can feel myself slipping into a parallel universe: one where phrases such as Tumble Tots and Tiny Talk may actually mean something."

Click here to read her whole article about developments in the world of motherhood...

Please tell us why you love TinyTalk and you could win 2 tickets for the Baby Show, Earls Court, 19th to 21st October!

Entries to info@tinytalk.co.uk by Thursday 11th October. Good luck!”

TinyTalk have just won the 'What's On 4 Little Ones' Silver Award in the Best National Activity for the under 2s category!

Thousands of mums voted in the awards, and we won for: 1: Value for money, 2: Educational but fun sessions and 3: Support for mums and families!

‘Young Mums to Be’ is a charity that supports pregnant teenagers across the UK. It aims to enable and support young parents through their pregnancy. By completing the course, the mums will also achieve modules towards NVQs.

TinyTalk has been chosen to support the Communication unit of the course, providing baby signs, training and guidance. The Young Mums to Be will then be able to help their babies express their needs clearly plus help their babies’ speech and language development.

For more information about this course you can visit the YMTB website: www.ymtb.org

“It’s in part due to the Baby Show and, in particular, your demonstration Katie. One sceptical Mum went to have a look. She then came to one of my classes, bought everything we sell, told all her friends how great it was and they’ve all turned up this morning!!”

 - A happy TinyTalk Teacher!

We’re pleased to announce that Baby Experiences and bébébox have chosen TinyTalk as their supplier of baby signing classes. So you can now buy vouchers for TinyTalk classes to give to friends and family.

TinyTalk has been asked to be ‘the baby signing expert’ by Practical Parenting magazine. The article, about how baby signing helps parents/ carers and babies to understand each other, was in the November 2004 issue.

TinyTalk is the first and leading British Baby Sign Language organisation to appear on television in the UK.

TinyTalk was invited onto ITV’s flagship show ‘This Morning’ (Winner of Best Daytime Television Show 2003) in February 2003. We were the first British Baby Sign Language organisation on television in the UK.

Katie Mayne (founder of TinyTalk) and some mums from her class (and with little ones) went on the show for the live interview. Footage of the TinyTalk classes was shown, with babies demonstrating a number of different signs. Their interview, by Philip Schofield and Fern Brittan, received the highest viewing ratings of the show and TinyTalk was subsequently flooded with requests for the Signing Packs, class details and information on how to become a TinyTalk teacher.

(You can see Philip comforting one of the babies (Toby - who was very tired by the time of the interview) on the opening credits to the show every day!)

TinyTalk have just passed the 110 teacher mark- with top quality teachers right across the UK as well as in Ireland and the United Arab Emirates with TinySign in Australia!

To find one of our baby signing classes nearest you - simply click 'Find A Class' on the main navigation bar.

We are proud to announce our first teacher in Australia - Emma Kelly has recently joined us and will be offering classes in her home town of Sydney.

"I can't wait to get started", Emma told us recently, "Baby signing has yet to hit Australia in a big way - and I'm hoping that TinyTalk's unique mix of fun and learning will take Australia's parents and babies by storm! Look out for my TinySign classes starting soon!"

Sarah Collins, TinyTalk baby signing teacher for Felixstowe and Ipswich, has won this year's Prince's Trust Award for 'Young Achiever of the Year' for the East of England. She received the award recently from none other than Prince Charles.

Sarah has turned her life around. Despite difficult background circumstances, Sarah has been determined to make a success of her life. Still in only her second term of teaching TinyTalk classes, Sarah has worked so hard that she has won this very prestigious Princes Trust award.

She teaches a range of TinyTalk baby signing classes every week, has trained a growing number of nurseries using the TinyTalk Nursery Training Programme and is also a TinyTalk Recruitment Coordinator.

Sarah says: ‘I can’t thank TinyTalk enough. It has helped me so much with my life’.

Katie Mayne, the TinyTalk founder, says: ‘I am so proud of you and what you have achieved for you and your family. Well done ‘Tigger’.

Sarah is now being put forward for the next level: the Prince’s Trust Young Achiever Award winner of England 2004. We wish her all the best!

In the summer of 2004 we launched the first of our Organisational Training Programmes- the TinyTalk Baby Sign Language Nursery Programme - after nursery schools invited TinyTalk to train their teachers.

The programme introduces signs and the principles of baby sign language into schools, relating it all to the existing guidelines of practice and everyday nursery life.

Since then we've also piloted and introduced 2 other highly regarded baby signing programmes- one specifically tailored for the needs of Childminders and an Introductory Workshop to baby signing for parents and professionals.

If you would like further information on any of the above 3 course, training you or your staff in the principles of baby sign language, please contact us for more information: info@tinytalk.co.uk