The training is being offered to 1,000 health visitors working in areas of deprivation so that they can carry out speech, language and communication checks during their routine visits to two-year-olds.
It is hoped the move will reduce the gap in communication skills between disadvantaged children and their peers. Children who start school with a poor vocabulary are twice as likely to be unemployed as an adult, according to the Department for Education, which is rolling out the initiative with Public Health England.
Initially, 400 health visitors in 49 council areas with high levels of deprivation will be trained this year, with the remaining 600 receiving the training in 2020.
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