02/07/2023
The way you RESPOND to your baby or toddler's communication attempts can have a DIRECT impact on their language development 🤯🤯🤯
In 2019, the American Academy of Pediatrics completed two meta-analyses that looked at the association between child language and parental responsiveness and warmth. (Madigan, Prime, Graham, Rodrigues, Anderson, Khoury, & Jenkins, 2019).
The researchers found that both sensitive-responsiveness and warmth had significant associations with child language – in fact, children who received responsive and warm parenting had a 2.8-fold increase in odds of acquiring stronger language skills than those who didn’t.
So this means one of the BEST ways to increase your child's language is to RESPOND to as many of their communication attempts as you can.
It is also important to do this in a way that models one step ABOVE their communication level.
SAVE this chart to refer back to as your child LEVELS UP!
Madigan, S., Prime, H., Graham, S. A., Rodrigues, M., Anderson, N., Khoury, J., & Jenkins, J. M. (2019). Parenting behavior and child language: A meta-analysis. Pediatrics, 144(4), 1-12.
