How Adults Can Help

Expert advice from Naomi Baron, author of Growing Up With Language: How Children Learn to Talk. This program identifies six stages of learning to talk, four factors that make developmental differences normal, the value of "child-directed speech" (otherwise known as "baby talk"), and how adults can help children learn language.

Learn:

- How caregivers can correct language errors without discouraging kids from trying.

- How to turn everyday activities into wonderful opportunities for language growth.

- How to read to a child so the book becomes a creative conversation.

- What caregivers in noisy child care centers can do to enrich language learning.

Runtime: 24 minutes

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