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Recasting

Recasting is a language-support technique in which an adult expands a child’s short utterance into a more complete and mature sentence.

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Talking to baby for development

Talking to baby for development

Why talking supports early development During the first three years, the nervous system is highly responsive to language input. Babies are learning to discriminate speech sounds, recognize familiar voices, detect patterns in syllables, and associate spoken labels with people, objects, actions, and emotional states. This learning begins before a child can produce recognizable words. Research […]