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Character-Based Games to Support Speech Development
A 2-year-old who answers "What did you do at daycare?" with a shrug will often spend ten minutes telling a sock puppet about it. The puppet does the t...
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How Imaginative Play Builds Language Skills
A 3-year-old turning a wooden block into a phone and saying "Hello, Granny, I'm at the shops" is doing something cognitively remarkable. They're holdi...
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Why Speech May Improve After Starting Daycare
A common pattern parents describe: by week 6 at daycare, the toddler who had 30 words six weeks ago is now using short sentences, naming things they'v...
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The Impact of Daycare on Speech and Language Development
Parents have two opposing worries about daycare and language: that it'll slow their child's speech (concern about peer influence and reduced one-on-on...
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How Peer Interaction Influences Vocabulary Growth
The number of words a child knows at age 3 is one of the strongest predictors of later school performance, and most parents think of vocabulary as som...
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