...parents make the biggest difference in a child's language environment and that you don't need expensive devices, toys, etc to teach language?
...you simply need to TALK to your kids about what you see, what you see them doing, what you are doing, where you are, etc to build language capacity and build vocabulary?
...a child's vocabulary are age 3 predicts his vocabulary at age 9-10 (Hart & Riley)?
...86-98% of the words a child uses at age 3 are words he/she is repeating from hearing parents and those around him/hear speak?
...a child has the ability to learn 3,000,000 (three million) words by the age of 3 because they are born with 2,500,00 gigabytes of brain storage? (Your cell phone, by the way, has 250 gigabytes and image what can store?)
...it doesn't take more time to build language skills? It just takes more words!!!!
...a child's brain is not complete at birth? It is the environment and parent/child language and emotional interaction that creates optimal brain processing speed! (Fernald)