Pointing is one of the most important pre-verbal gestures and a crucial communication milestones that emerges within the first year of life. 

Studies show that a child’s use of gesture and pointing at 14 months is the best predictor of later vocabulary size.

That’s right... a larger vocabulary for children who use pointing to…

We all know someone who has a lisp, right?

There are actually four different types of lisps (see below), but the most common is an interdental lisp, when the tongue pushes through the front teeth and the /s/ sound is pronounced like a /th/. “See”…

The benefits of reading to your child are no secret. Its great for parent-child bonding, building attention skills, fostering social-emotional development, and of course excellent for language development.

When they are young, we read aloud. Several of us…

Learning words and language is innate... it just happens. Though it may be at a different pace than some of their peers, or maybe a bit slower than anticipated... they will find their own way of communicating with you. Though when it comes to learning new words... silence is NOT golden.

Using these 5 basic techniques are great ways to reinforce language and word learning in your budding communicator:

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