Benefits
MYTH: "Sing song" Baby Talk will Slow my Baby's Language Development
Exaggeration and hyper articulation of vowels and consonants helps your infant more easily distinguish among speech sounds.
These actions provide a model for the necessary mouth and motor movements for each sound! Cool!
Children who experience more active, verbal engagement have larger vocabularies later on!
IDS helps children to segment the speech stream!
IDS teaches dynamic turn-taking and proper conversation etiquette!
IDS encourages more babbling!