New programme starting at Nelson kindergartens to help improve speech skills

A new programme is being piloted at two kindergartens in Nelson and Motueka to help tamariki improve their speech skills before they start school. It comes after research shows children have fewer and fewer words when they arrive in the classroom - some schools say up to 30 percent of new entrants can't speak very well, with some only about to speak in sentences of three or four words, Samantha Gee has more.