Baby’s Language Development, Eight months

Posted on October 20th, 2007 by security in Uncategorized

eight months babyEight months. Your baby is playing games such as pat a cake and peeka- boo. Even though he can’t speak the words that belong to these games, he can babble and talk to himself. It’s likely that your baby knows what the word “No” means by now as well.

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The scientists found that for every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants understood an average of six to eight fewer words than infants who did not watch them. Baby DVDs and videos had no positive or negative effect on the vocabularies on toddlers 17 to 24 months of age. The study was published today in the Journal of Pediatrics.
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Made-for-baby videos may harm language development: study
“Despite marketing claims, parents who want to give their infants a boost in learning language probably should limit the amount of time they expose their children to DVDs and videos such as Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby,” said a statement about the study.

Many parents think they’re helping their baby’s language by letting them watch a Baby Einstein DVD, but the opposite might be the case, according to a study out Tuesday.

The study found that with every hour per day spent viewing baby DVDs and videos, infants between the ages of eight and 16 months learned about 10 per cent fewer new vocabulary words compared to babies who never watched the targeted programming.

As well, the study showed that babies in the same age range who watched other types of programming such as children’s educational shows, children’s non-educational shows, kids movies or adult television learned more words, versus babies watching infant-geared shows.

For toddlers aged 17 to 24 months, the article found that baby DVDs and videos had neither a positive nor a negative effect.

The paper was published online Wednesday in the Journal of Pediatrics. It was done by researchers at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute who quizzed 1,008 Minnesota and Washington parents about their babies’ viewing habits. They also completed a standard evaluation for measuring infant language development.

One Response to “Baby’s Language Development, Eight months”

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