From the first days of life, babies are ready to participate in the communication. During the first weeks, his eyesight is perfectly suited to capture your facial expressions when you hold in your arms. The tenderness he reads in your eyes encouraged to be attentive to the words that you contact him.
Feelings and accents transmitted by intonation him “talk” even if he does not yet recognize the words. Moreover, the research showed that from the first day of life, babies grasp the nuances of sound that distinguish speech sounds from each other.
* The baby’s smile, about 3 months, invites you to a “conversation” based on words or actions on your part, and smiles and vocal explorations on his part.
* Baby recognizes early routines of daily life. You can talk about what you’re doing at the time of the bath, when the diaper and other activities during the day. Regular use of words, in association with familiar objects or actions repeated, gives baby the first opportunities to interpret its meaning. Any time spent interacting with your baby nicely prepared speech!
* Through games of exchange, baby continues to learn the art of conversation. This is particularly the case when playing peekaboo! “He loves especially from 6 months to 18 months. Each of the partners involved and is awaiting a response from the other.
* Your baby may show you an object that is interesting and looks obviously a comment from you. He thus shows that he understood the principle issues, although not yet able to formulate them in words. The answer they need first is that you tell it the name of the object, for example: “Ah! A truck! “Or:” You found a little monkey! . Gestures are a first baby step toward language.
Add some information about an object enriches both the experience and your child’s vocabulary. Instead, use simple sentences, but complete: “The truck travels fast” or “Your monkey has a long tail. ”
You can strengthen the information and added a gesture to the words (eg, by sliding your hand along the tail of the monkey when you say “long”). Information will be easier to absorb for your child.
When you pronounce words often related to what interests baby, you will help her learn useful vocabulary, even though it will say these words until several months later.
* Shortly before developing a vocabulary understandable that the baby knows how to convey intentions become increasingly diverse. He began to accompany her acts of sounds that emphasize strongly his idea (eg, he points a toy out of reach with a sound emphasis as “Han Han Han”). Putting into words his intention before taking action (eg “You want daddy gives you train?”), You will greatly ease its passage gestures to words.
* When your child starts talking, lack of clarity in the words he utters led her to complete her words with gestures and the same actions (eg: He says “Tain” trying to catch that toy that is out of reach). It is very important to put into words what you understand his idea. Be sure to include your response in the word you think you have heard. If you pronounce it carefully, your toddler will have a good role model in his next attempt.
Your responses, adjusted for the intentions of your child, bring a lot of satisfaction, and support essential to the development of his language.
