Why do babies put objects in their mouths, and does mouthing play a part in speech development?
The messy – sometimes scary – truth is that babies and young toddlers love to put things in their mouths. In fact, most infants go…
Light Up Language with Homophones, Homonyms, and Homographs
Written and spoken language can be ambiguous, including homophones, homonyms, homographs, some complex sentences, and “garden path” sentences. In this video blog, David looks at…
Reading books with our babies, toddlers and preschoolers: everyone knows we should do it. Here’s why.
Almost everyone recommends that parents should read picture books to their young children every day. Teachers, early learning professionals, speech pathologists, literacy experts, librarians, psychologists,…
Light Up Language with Analogies
Analogical reasoning is important for school and life success. In this video blog, David talks about analogies, the complicated relationship between language development and analogical…
FANBOYS: Coordinating Conjunctions for Compound Sentence Making
To express our thoughts and feelings properly, we need to link our ideas together. From around the age of 42 months, typically developing children start…