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…
ContinueAdded by Erika Cardamone on July 11, 2013 at 10:59am — No Comments
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”…
ContinueAdded by Erika Cardamone on June 28, 2013 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment
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…
ContinueAdded by Erika Cardamone on April 4, 2013 at 11:52pm — 1 Comment
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:
1.…
ContinueAdded by Erika Cardamone on March 25, 2013 at 9:05pm — 1 Comment
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