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Character-Based Games to Support Speech Development
Children often speak more freely through a character than they do in their own voice. The puppet, the toy animal, the stick figure drawn on a paper pl...
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How Imaginative Play Builds Language Skills
Imaginative play is one of the most powerful contexts for language development. When your child narrates a pretend scenario, uses voices for different...
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Why Speech May Improve After Starting Daycare
Parents sometimes notice a notable acceleration in their child's language after starting daycare — new words appearing rapidly, sentence length increa...
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Daycare
The Impact of Daycare on Speech and Language Development
Language development is one of the areas most often discussed in relation to daycare — both in terms of potential benefit ("they'll hear more language...
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How Peer Interaction Influences Vocabulary Growth
Language development is influenced by the quality and quantity of language a child is exposed to. Parents and caregivers are the primary language mode...
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