This is an incredible story of a 17 month old baby who can read! This first aired on March 10th on the Today Show. Signing Time family Katy & Michael Barrett shared their experience with their daughter, Elizabeth, learning to read when she was just 13-months old. They contribute a large part of this to introducing her at a very young age to Signing Time. Both parents are speech/language pathologists and started teaching her sign language along with spoken language when she was very young.
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They, like most parents, read to her often (but never taught her how to read). The only television she watches is a Signing Time DVD which teaches kids sign language. Sign language is of course a visual language system and I think the act of learning sign language must enhance an individuals visual perception and visual memory skills. These skills are necessary for reading. I completely agree with Katy and Michael Barret that there must be a coorelation between their daughter being taught sign language by her parents and by watching these Signing Time DVD's from a very young age to her extraordinary reading abilities at only 17 months old!
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Many of these tips to encourage language development and help your child learn new words are are things that we all do everyday without really thinking about it. So use this list to re-assure yourself that you are stimulating your child's language development already and perhaps you will find some tips on this list that you are not doing but that you can incorporate in your daily routine with your child.
- Repetition is very important when you are trying to get your child to learn a new word. Think about learning a foreign language - the more we hear a word and the more we hear in in context, the better we will remember it's meaning. It's the same with a child's language development. It may be necessary for a child to hear a word many times before they will understand it and try to say it themselves.
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Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), is also called developmental apraxia of speech (DAS) and dyspraxia. This is a motor speech disorder. Children with developmental apraxia have difficulty coordinating and sequencing their articulators (mouth, lips, jaw, tongue) to produce sounds, syllables and words. This is not at all due to muscle weakness, but rather it is due to poor communication between the brain and the muscles that are needed for speech. In other words, the area of the brain that is responsible for telling the muscles what to do and how to move to make partiuclar sounds is not fully developed or possibly damaged. In adults, apraxia of speech is caused by a stroke or other brain damage. In children the cause is not so clear.
Speech apraxia is only related to speech activities and so non-speech activities that use the same muscles such as coughing, chewing and swallowing are performed just fine.
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