Everyone wants to help their children talk! The best way to do this is by using routines, those activities you have to do every day, some of them several times a day to encourage verbal communication.

Read books with lots of repetition such as "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "I went Walking". Sing and Sign songs with your little one. Research supports that signing songs enhances vocabulary, language development and helps develop literacy skills.


Why sign with your baby? The cheeky answer to that question is why not? Julie Roberts did it, Debra Messing did it, and Nicole Ritchie plans to do it. As informed parent though I know you want more than just what’s trendy, you want the facts. Signing with your baby, using American Sign Language vocabulary along with your speech, will not delay your baby’s speech and language development. Studies show that it can enhance language development.

Many parents believe that if a child is exposed to more than one language then he will achieve typical language developmental milestones later than monolingual children...