It’s easy to underestimate the language abilities of young children. Because infants and many young toddlers can’t communicate with words, we often assume that they can’t understand and don’t need to understand what is going on around them. The reality is that children understand language well before they can speak it. Communication begins at birth.
Infants [...]
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These days there is a lot of pressure on parents and teachers to have children reading before they enter kindergarten. While some children may be successful at accomplishing this, there are developmental stages to literacy, and not all children are ready for reading this early.
However, there is a lot you can do to lay the [...]
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If you stop and think about it, your typical toddler has to rely on a lot of auditory cues to get through the day. Sure, they often have a visual context to help them figure out what is going on (Mom is opening the refrigerator door and talking, maybe she’s getting me food!), but we [...]
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