A late-talking child can acquire a new word in the same setting but may need 50 or 100 presentations. Children who are late talking can learn. But intervention needs to be tailored to their individual learning styles, Camarata said. We can increase the rate of learning. But no approach works with everyone.
All children seem to have an optimal learning style.
We don t see any evidence that parents are causing the late talking. This is an important point the researchers convey to parents, since guilt can hurt parent-child interactions. Therapists encouraged Jacob s parents to use their conversations to help him improve. If he said. The program, which has three clinics, has been designated the National Center for the Study of Language Intervention by the National Institutes of Health, Division of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.