Talking baby
Subtitle: helping your child discover language
By: Margaret Maclagan and Anne Buckley
Contributors: Buckley, Anne, 1959- author
Publisher: Finch Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Warriewood, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781925048605
Subjects: Language; Parent participation; Parent and infant; Interpersonal communication in infants; Language acquisition; Children
Description: The development of language through the preschool years is a remarkable journey, but it is not one that your child will make alone. Children make this journey because people around them talked to them while they were a baby and then kept right on talking.
Notes: A Childrens Plus, Inc.
Table of contents: title: Overview: what can they do?; title: Beginnings; title: A sea of sound; title: Talking by accident; title: Are they talking yet?; title: Eureka! First words; title: Thinking, play and language; title: The one-word stage: expanding words and worlds; title: What's the use of language, anyway?; title: Early meanings: look what I can tell you!; title: Putting it together: more than one word; title: Later meanings: expanding language into complex concepts; title: Listen to what I can say: early sound development; title: I can really say a lot now! Later sound development; title: 'No' and 'won't': short sentences with a big impact; title: The three 'terrible question' stages; title: Talking in the world; title: Language is needed everywhere; title: Questions and answers; title: Is there a problem?; title: Resources and further reading.