"Just because children don't have language, doesn't mean they do not understand language and understand the intent and the meaning of what we say," observes Jerlean Daniel in the Exchange VOICES DVD, "Caring for Infants and Toddlers." Listen to the segment from this DVD, "Learning to Communicate with Infants," and hear the insights of Daniel, as well as Jacque Sell, Peter Pizzolongo, and Caroline Davis.
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This powerful series of DVDs offers you practical ideas and experienced insights from seasoned professionals who speak with the passion and perspective that can only come from years of working with directors, teachers, young children, and their families. Interlaced with real-life classroom video, they provide a rich platform for staff development and training sessions that will inspire, motivate, teach, provoke new thinking, and generate lively discussions.
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Great to talk about language with very young children! In today's (03/26/2014) New York Times is an article titled "Trying to Close the Knowledge Gap, Word by Word" by Motoko Rich. It describes a mayor-sponsored project in Providence, Rhode Island, called "Providence Talks." The emphasis is on helping parents learn to talk to their babies and toddlers. It doesn't say anything about the research source for such a project: Hart & Risley's 1995 publication titled "Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children" (Brookes). Betty Hart & Todd Risley lead an in-depth, carefully-designed research project in the mid-1990s to determine what amount of language children from birth to age 3 years heard at home. The differences in the number of words were startling and every early childhood professional needs to read the book or at least a summary of the study and the results. It encourages parents and family members talking to the very young children and engaging the young ones in verbal exchanges. Babies and toddlers may not use words, but they communicate with facial expressions and body language - and we should never forget it!
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