Jennise Conley's Blog - Posts Tagged "language"

For speech and vocabulary development of a child, the critical window is open between birth and 3 years of age. The sounds a child hears in those years will largely determine the size of his/her adult vocabulary. So speak and read-aloud to your child regularly early in life to expose them to a lot of spoken language.
A Fish, a Frog, and a Gnome: My Favorite Poems

Engaging young children with picture books of well-loved folk songs and rhymes accelerates their oral language development and builds phonemic awareness naturally while the child is delighting in the sounds of language and connecting that joy to print.

Scientists at University of Pennsylvania found that the more mental stimulation a child gets around the age of four, the more developed the parts of their brains dedicated to language and cognition will be in the decades ahead (Farah, 2012).