More than ever before, children across Central Florida are using technology at a younger age. Infants and toddlers have unprecedented access to smartphones tablets, and even gaming consoles. The Coronavirus has compounded the situation with digital learning and at home learning. How is this affecting their speech, language, social, and communication skills? For instance, my [...]
Teaching speech and language skill to your child isn't always easy in our fast pace and multi-media world. Children are learning all day, every day. It is important to take the time to talk, read, and play games with them. These are the moments they are learning the most. Pretend play Playing pretend, building block [...]
There is not doubt, parents and caregivers play a huge role in how a child develop their speech and language skills. Studies show children have better grammar and larger vocabularies when they were spoken and read too often, when they were toddlers. It doesn’t take much to nurture your child’s speech and language development, the [...]
Your toddler may not be talking up a storm, but how much of what you say, do they really understand? It may surprise you that your toddler both listens and understands a lot more than you think. Expert Jean Berko Gleason, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Boston University and author of The Development of [...]
