Talking to the Animals is an innovative partnership aiming to develop museum displays that encourage under-fives and their families to communicate and to interact with the museum's artefacts.
Four establishments are involved: the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, the New Art Gallery Walsall and Worcester Museum and Art Gallery. NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), which funds the project, provides a project supervisor, Jo Graham.
The museums are supported by Stoke Speaks Out, a multi-agency project that looks at the issues underlying children's language difficulties.
Sure Start statistics show that one in ten children in the UK have significant difficulty with their speech and language. In Stoke-on-Trent this number is much higher, in some wards up to 84 per cent.
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