Speech - birth to 1 year

Science tells us that your baby is already communicating while still in the womb. So when he's born, many of his language and understanding faculties are just waiting to get into action. Mum, dad and the family play a very important part in how baby's speech and language skills develop, and in this case, the more talking the better!

Baby’s speech and language skills

Newborns have an entire world to discover, a million things to learn, about anything and everything. And language is one of the major “puzzles” they have to solve.
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Baby is speaking

Your baby learns about language before she even starts to talk: listening to any change in sound, rhythm and intonation of your speech.
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Speech: helping your baby to talk

Help baby learn how to apply words by describing and talking about things actually in front of her, so she can make the connections.
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Talk to baby, and baby will talk to you

We have yet to discover how a baby – who doesn't know how to eat or go to the toilet alone – manages to learn to talk. But we do know how to help him in his journey of language acquisition...
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