Talking, listening, vocabulary and early conversation.
Copying a baby's own sound teaches that vocalising produces a response from another person — the single most important discovery in early communication. The…
5 minA word learned at the moment of touching the thing is anchored by touch, sight and sound at once. Following the baby's own reach means you are naming the thing…
6 minNappy changes happen several times a day, every day, which makes them the highest-frequency language slot available. Narrating turns a silent routine into…
5 minPredictable repetition lets a baby build an expectation and then confirm it, which is how sequences get encoded. A song tied to a fixed moment also becomes a…
5 minPointing while naming establishes joint attention, the shared focus on one thing that makes vocabulary learning possible at all. Following the baby's interest…
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