Communication Development
Strategies to support your child's communication development within their everyday routines and play.
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Singing to your baby
Why Singing to Your Baby is a Game Changer!1. Enhances Their Sense of Security and Emotional Connection: Singing to your baby creates a comforting and familiar environment, boosting their sense...
8 Skills that Children need to practice before they develop first words
Teach this ⬇️Are you and your parent friends waiting to hear first words?! Share this with them.From birth, babies are working on these 8 Pre-verbal skills just from hanging out...
4 Tips to Enhance your Baby's Speech and Language Development
Your little one is learning how to communicate from the second they're brought into this world.Communication isn't just talking, it's noises and facial expressions and gestures and tones.When your baby...
My child doesn't say some speech sounds - should I worry?
⚠️SAVE THIS FOR REFERENCESome sounds are harder to say than others. Knowing WHEN sounds typically develop will ensure that you’re not expecting too much of your little one.Children are developing...
Pre-verbal Skills
First words start here⬇️Your baby is probably already intentially communicating with you - don't miss it!!Learning to talk starts with PRE-VERBAL SKILLS, they're the foundations of communication. So if you're...
Best way to read to your baby
More strategies ⬇️🌟Here's a throwback to when my 4 year old was 10 months old.GET FACE TO FACEPositioning yourself so you can get face to face is a total game...
Help! My Child doesn't really Babble or make Many Noises
Time to make some noises, people. OMG I said adjective and I meant verb!! Losing my marbles this evening.Making noises yourself and making for face fun is KEY here.Stay away...
The Power of Parent Facing
My only prerequisite for my pushchair was that my kids could face me. Here's why: Babies are hard wired to seek out and look at faces, especially their parents! In...
How to Support Communication Development with your Newborn
I know there’s some mums out there who don’t feel confident with what they’re doing with their little one to engage them and further them when they’re tiny. But all...
How to Teach Your Child to Sign "again"
Did you know that you can teach your little one to communicate with you through temptations? Highly motivating play can make your little one so keen to keep the activity...
How to Have a conversation with your Baby
Imitation is magic. Check out my ‘language’ and ‘temptations’ highlight for more tips on supporting your little one to start talking. This may just look like noise making, but it’s...
When to Sign 'Finished' to your Baby
Imagine knowing what you want but being unable to tell anyone? It would be so frustrating. That’s what it feels like for our little ones before they can communicate with...
Benefits of Singing Routines and Nursery Rhymes
Develops language and phonological awareness. Develops turn taking and social communication skills Enhances physical development and rhythm Improves memory, concentration, spacial awareness and thinking skills Fosters a close relationship between...
How to use Routines to Teach new Language
Routine are magic for language learning. We play this game every day where I take her dummy (dody) and she grabs if back again. This has lead to her initiating...
How to Tempt your Baby to Communicate with Songs and Actions
I’m singing a familiar song and have chosen an action that I know Etta can do. I’ve modelled the action that keeps me singing - tapping the tray. Then I’m...
Close Enough to Kiss and to Talk to
I've seen so many babies being worn super low lately. Learning to wear your baby can be a learning curve - there are so many types of wrap and...
Tempt them to Communitcate
These are just a few of the ways that you can tempt your little one to interact with you, basically by doing something a little bit silly. Kids are so...
How to Teach your Baby to Talk: Turn Taking
It's not just about feeding them and keeping them alive! Your baby's brain is a sponge and they're ready to start learning how to communicate with you!!It all begins with...
Why you should teach 'more'
When your little one can sign or say "more", the world is their oyster. They'll be able to request more of anything: think food, toys, stories or cuddles, and you'll...
How to Support your Child's Language Development
Hint: However you'd like to be supported to learn a new language!Have a think for a moment. If you were in Japan, France, or anywhere were you didn't know the...
