Benefits

MYTH: "Sing song" Baby Talk will Slow my Baby's Language Development

Graph of the Hypothetical Mouth Shape Space. The y-axis is labelled as vertical opening of lips, while the x-axis is labelled as horizontal opening of lips.

Exaggeration and hyper articulation of vowels and consonants helps your infant more easily distinguish among speech sounds.

Mother and father both looking at their child and smiling. The mother is hold the child on her hip.

These actions provide a model for the necessary mouth and motor movements for each sound! Cool!


Graphic of Developmental Milestones. 3 months: cooing and gurgling, 6 months: Babbling, 12 months: first words, 18 months: knows 5 to 40 words, 2 years: 150-300 words, knows 2-3 word sentences, 3 years: 900-1000 words, asks short questions, 4 years: 2000 words, 5+ words sentences, 5 years: identifying letters, creates longer sentences.

Children who experience more active, verbal engagement have larger vocabularies later on!

Cartoon person talking. There is a sound wave coming from their open mouth.

IDS helps children to segment the speech stream!

Image of siblings (brother on left and sister on right) playing a game together and taking turns.

IDS teaches dynamic turn-taking and proper conversation etiquette!

Image of baby sitting up with various examples of babbling such as "oooh" and "aaaah".

IDS encourages more babbling!