Language development in a nutshell.
These pages offer a brief introduction to helping your child learn language. No one workshop or book is going to offer everything you need to help your child learn language. To sum it all up, we strongly recommend the following:
- Take advantage of programs to help you, such as Even Start, Head Start, Early Childhood Tracking, Infant Development Program and others.
- Use the results of screening tests that tell your child's age level for language development and find activities that will help a child at that age level develop.
- Get all the parent information you can from workshops, books and other resources.
- Free, on-line courses on child development are available, includingsome from Spirit Lake Consulting.
- Use toys and other common objects to teach language.
- If you are concerned that your child has a severe language problem, insist on testing by a speech pathologist, a professional whose specialty is language and speech problems.
Helping Your Child Learn