by | Jun 17, 2014 | Learning |
Can you name five of your child’s interests (not including branded items)? Does your child know they have interests? Do you encourage them? Have you pointed out how other children have different interests? Did you know that the easiest way for a child to...
by | Dec 6, 2013 | Language, Learning |
[18 months +] Teach your child to count through incidental counting here and there, when they have attention for it. This might be seeing a whole lot of balls in a book, once you’ve named ‘balls’, if they are still looking, you could name the...
by | Aug 3, 2013 | Language |
[6 months +] Help your baby to understand more about their world as soon as the ‘lights come on’. Around six months, a baby starts to focus their attention on things more easily and this leads into a perfect time to start giving them some words (just to...
by | Jul 19, 2013 | Language |
Most parents have two big milestones in mind – first steps and first words. Being a speech pathologist, I feel like I can comment on the latter! The thing about first words, is that there is a wide range of ‘normal’. Some children come out with a...
