11 tips to encourage language and speech at 18 months old...

Описание: 🗣 At around 18 months of age, toddlers go through what many call ‘word spurt’ where they start learning new words very quickly. An average 2-year-old learns about five new words of varying difficulty, every day.

How can you encourage language and speech? Here are tips from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

✅ Say sound like “ma,” “da,” and “ba.” Try to get your baby to say them back to you.

✅ Look at your child when they make sounds. Talk back to them, and say what they say. Pretend to have a conversation.

✅ Respond when your baby laughs or makes faces. Make the same faces back to them.

✅ Teach your baby to do what you do, like clapping your hands and playing peek-a-boo.

✅ Talk to your child as you give them a bath, feed them, and get them dressed. Talk about what you are doing and where you are going. Tell them who or what you will see.

✅ Point out colors and shapes.

✅ Count what you see.

✅ Use gestures, like waving and pointing.

✅ Talk about animal sounds. This helps your child connect the sound and the animal. Use words like “The dog says woof-woof.”

✅ Add on to what your baby says. When your baby says, “Mama,” say, “Here is Mama. Mama loves you. Where is baby? Here is baby.”

✅ Read to your child. You don’t have to read every word, but talk about the pictures. Choose books that are sturdy and have large colorful pictures. Ask your child, “What’s this?” and try to get them to point to or name objects.

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