As the new year arrives, one of your top wishes may be that your child will start talking more. Add to your list of resolutions to talk with your child more, tune in to her interests, and watch closely for small changes.
Happy New Words In The New Year
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mary_Lou_Johnson]Mary Lou Johnson
As the new year arrives, one of your top wishes may be that your child will start talking more. Add to your list of resolutions to talk with your child more, tune in to her interests, and watch closely for small changes.
Every time you talk with your child, he has an opportunity to learn new words. When you talk about what your child is looking at, touching, mouthing, tasting, hearing, and experiencing, you have a better chance of helping him make a cognitive "match" with language. Saying the same word several times as a single word or in different phrases and sentences gives him a chance to recognize it as a meaningful word. Repetition is a great teaching aid.
Your child has the chance eventually to learn to say all of the words you use. Since she can't learn to say words she hasn't heard, make sure to offer some variety. If an object has more than one label, use both. For example, you might say, "Let's fix your hair. Here's your brush. Mommy is brushing your hair. Brush brush brush. You have a blue hair brush."
If one of your new year's resolutions is to stop saying "bad" words, be aware that those words can slip out in front of your child, and no doubt your child will snap up those words much more readily than the more mundane words of daily life. Isn't it interesting how appealing those undesirable words can be to a young language learner!
Here are some key concepts about children's speech-language development and stimulation to keep in mind as you help your child learn to talk better this year:
Hearing
Attention
Play
Practice
You
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Narrate
Enjoy
Watch
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Yay
Elicit
Appreciate
Repeat
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
May your wishes for your child's speech-language growth in 2008 come true.
P.S. Give her a hand to work together toward that goal.
Mary Lou Johnson, M.S., CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist with over 32 years experience working with children and their families at The Children's Hospital, Denver. In her eBook, How To Help Your Child Learn to Talk Better in Everyday Activities, Mary Lou shares with readers the information, insights, and ideas that she has shared with parents in her practice. Mary Lou hopes that her eBook will enable a parent to gain new ideas and more confidence in her abilities to help her child acquire new speech-language skills. The reader can see the topics covered in the eBook by viewing the Table of Contents on the home page of the web site at http://helpyourchildspeak.com
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