Join Youngballymun and the community to celebrate the launch of our Infant Mental Health Evaluation by Dr Evelyn Gordon and her team in DCU. We are delighted to say that we will also be joined by Suzanne Zeedyk who will give a keynote address which supports …
The Oral Language Forum was held online on Tuesday the 9th of November. Over twenty practitioners from HSE Speech and language Therapy Departments, school principals and Home School Community liaison Teachers, Early Years Practitioners, Adult Literacy educators and Members of the ABC consortium attended. For this forum, Aoife O’Shea and Pauline Frizelle presented …
The Infant Mental Health Strand were delighted to get our Talk & Play Everyday group started back again in GLAS community garden in May 2021. Talk & Play Everyday is a parent and toddler(12-24mths) group running weekly on Thursday mornings in Ballymun. Due to Covid 19 …
Lána, who works as Family and Community Language and Literacy Coordinator with Youngballymun, received an Irish Research Council award to carry out her PhD in Trinity College, Dublin in 2018. The title of her research is: ‘Parental Engagement to Measurably Improve Children’s Language and Literacy …
Following the very successful ‘Schools Out Programme’ at Halloween, Youngballymun Language and Literacy team are collaborating again with the team in Ballymun Child & Family Resource Centre (BCFRC) to bring a fun programme to children in the community ( 4- 10 years ). While the …
Hi there, the language and literacy team of Youngballymun are, like most people in Ireland, currently working from home. Our work specifically includes working with parents to support them to develop their children’s literacy skills using the evidence based Balanced Literacy Framework and the Family …
Please find our page with a list of book ideas for Parents during these strange times: Click here for full details
