Are you speaking clearly to your baby?
The way people communicate with infants is different to how they interact with adults. While it can seem comforting to speak to a child in a sing-song voice, or slowly and using words such as 'tummy' rather than 'stomach', it may be doing more harm than good.
Getting involved with music and language can help kids learn
Two new interesting pieces of research have been released recently, both of which show that interacting with children in creative ways from a very early age can have a positive impact on their future development.
Infant Language Project emphasises importance of talking to children
We were interested to read recently about a project that is going on in the US to discover how children can acquire language, learning, spatial and social skills through interactive play - and it has emphasised just how important the simple act of talking to youngsters can be.
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