
How to Talk to Your Baby or Toddler
(How to be a Good Language Model for Early Language Learners)
Part 3 of a 4 part series: How to Encourage Your Young Child’s Communication Development Parents of babies and young toddlers are often told to talk to their children in order to encourage their language development. While this is good advice, it is vague. There are a few simple tricks that make your “talking” an excellent language model for your little one. The strategies below help babies and young children learn to understand and say new words. Once children are older, u