Some Ways to Develop Language Skills
Here are some ways that you can help your baby develop her language skills:
• Speak very slowly and clearly.
• Identify and point out items, objects and people as you talk about them.
• Use shorter sentences sentences.
• Using repetition when singing songs and nursery rhymes helps the learning process.
• Reading to your baby is a good idea and should be done as often as possible – ask your baby questions and point things out to make the process as interactive as possible.
• Let your baby respond in his own way when communicating with her.
Talk to Her.
Children listen to learn. The more they hear, the greater their vocabulary and the greater their IQ. One Chicago researcher found that 2-year-old children of talkative mothers said twice as many words as the children of mothers who cared for their babies silently. However, only “live” language, not television, helps children develop language skills. Experts believe this is because children need to hear language in relation to what is happening around them, or it just becomes noise.
Even though your child may be surrounded by conversation from birth, it is important that you talk directly to him long before he can talk back to you. Before a child says her first word, she must hear that word many times and understand its meaning. The natural way for your baby to learn the meanings of words is for him to listen to you talk in relation to the events going on around you, and learn to associate the words you say with the actions, objects or thoughts you describe.
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