Talking Baby: Helping Your Child Discover Language

Talking Baby: Helping Your Child Discover Language
Margaret MacLagan, Anne Buckley
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Paperback
h210 x 148mm - 192pg
11 Nov 2019 NZ
Locally sourced in NZ eta 7-15 days
9781988503165
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This book takes a child-led approach to encouraging language development. We hope you enjoy discovering more about how language grows and ways you can choose to nourish its development in your child. The main focus in this book is on babies and young children. As it's useful to see the progression of language development throughout all the preschool years, we've included milestones up to age five. But do remember that individual children will progress through these stages at different rates. By school age your child will: * speak your language and have a working vocabulary of up to 5,000 words. * complete complex sentences, describing their world and instructing those in it! * produce almost every sound in their language reasonably correctly. * be ready to learn new and abstract ideas through their own and others' use of language * be ready to learn to represent language through written words (reading and writing) * be ready to learn maths 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. In the first third of the book, we describe your baby's language development alongside their physical development in the first 18 months.
"Scientifically-informed and yet utterly accessible, "Talking Baby"is a celebration of child language acquisition. It will be a welcome and fun read for anyone with young children in their life." Dr. Alexandra D'Arcy, Associate Professor & Director, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria"
Margaret Maclagan (PhD, Lond) has been a lecturer in child language development and language analysis for more than three decades. She taught speech-language therapists at the University of Canterbury, is an author and editor of academic books, and now writes for a general audience. Anne Buckley (MSc, Human Communication, Lond) is a former speech-language therapist and lecturer at the University of Canterbury. She has worked in medical publishing for more than a decade as a medical writer and editor, writing for both health professionals and consumers. Anne has a son..

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