How to Talk to Your Baby

How to Talk to Your Baby
Author: Dorothy P. Dougherty
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-08
Genre: Interpersonal communication in infants
ISBN: 9780399527319

Many parents do not know that the simple act of speaking to a child, even before he or she can respond, stimulates the child to learn speech. This book shows how babies learn and encourages parents to use all settings -from parks to stores to car rides -as opportunities for rewarding exchanges.

Becoming a Word Learner

Becoming a Word Learner
Author: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2000-11-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190284781

Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly and laboriously but at twenty months he or she acquires an average of ten new words per day. How can we explain this phenomenal change? A theory of word acquisition will not only deepen our understanding of the nature of language but will provide real insight into the workings of the developing mind. In the latest entry in Oxford's Counterpoints series, Roberta Golinkoff and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek will present competing word acquisition theories that have emerged in the past decade. Each theory will be presented by the pioneering researcher. Contributors will include Lois Bloom of Columbia University, Linda Smith of Indiana University, Amanda Woodward of the University if Chicago, Nameera Akhtar of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute. The editors will provide introductory and summary chapters to help assess each theoretical model. Roberta Golinkoff has been the director of The Infant Language Project at the University of Delaware since 1974. For the past decade she has collaborated with Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek of Temple University to solve the question of language acquisition in children.

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Author: Adele Faber
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1999-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0380811960

You Can Stop Fighting With Your Chidren! Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know–how you need to be more effective with your children and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down–to–earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Their methods of communication, illustrated with delightful cartoons showing the skills in action, offer innovative ways to solve common problems.

Baby Signs

Baby Signs
Author: Linda Acredolo
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2000
Genre: Child rearing
ISBN: 0091851688

Provides parents with a simple program to realise their baby's potential for learning gestures (baby signs) to assist communicate prior to language development.

Your Self-Confident Baby

Your Self-Confident Baby
Author: Magda Gerber
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2008-04-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 047030491X

"At long last -- Magda Gerber's wisdom and spice captured in a book --what a treasure! Now parents and caregivers everywhere can benefit from learning what it means to truly respect babies." --Janet Gonzalez-Mena, Author of Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers and Dragon Mom "Magda Gerber's approach will deepen your understanding of your baby and help you truly appreciate the complexity, competence, and amazing capacities of the small human being for whom you are caring." --Jeree H. Pawl, Ph.D. Director, Infant-Parent Program University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine As the founder of Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), Magda Gerber has spent decades helping new mothers and fathers give their children the best possible start in life. Her successful parenting approach harnesses the power of this basic fact: Your baby is unique and will grow in confidence if allowed to develop at his or her own pace. The key to successful parenting is learning to observe your child and to trust him or her to be an initiator, an explorer, a self-learner with an individual style of problem solving and mastery. Now you can discover the acclaimed RIE approach. This practical and enlightening guide will help you: Develop your own observational skills Learn when to intervene with your baby and when not to Find ways to connect with your baby through daily caregiving routines such as feeding, diapering, and bathing Effectively handle common problems such as crying, discipline, sleep issues, toilet training, and much more.

Dear Parent

Dear Parent
Author: Magda Gerber
Publisher: Resources for Infant Educarers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Child rearing
ISBN: 9781892560063

Internationally renowned infant specialist Magda Gerber, M.A., the founder of RIE, offers a healthy new approach to infant care based on a profound respect for each baby's individual needs and abilities.

How Babies Talk

How Babies Talk
Author: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2000-07-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1101213086

In their first three years of life, babies face the most complex learning endeavor they will ever undertake as human beings: They learn to talk. Now, as researchers make new forays into the mystery of the development of the human brain, Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek, both developmental psychologists and language experts, offer parents a powerfully insightful guidebook to how infants—even while in the womb—begin to learn language. Along the way, the authors provide parents with the latest scientific findings, developmental milestones, and important advice on how to create the most effective learning environments for their children. This book takes readers on a fascinating, vitally important exploration of the dance between nature and nurture, and explains how parents can help their children learn more successfully.

What Babies Say Before They Can Talk

What Babies Say Before They Can Talk
Author: Paul Holinger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2003-08-04
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0743406672

Psychiatrist and clinical research Dr. Paul Holinger decodes for parents the nine easily identifiable expressions hardwired into every human being.

Your Baby Is Speaking to You

Your Baby Is Speaking to You
Author: Kevin Nugent
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2011-01-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0547504497

From an international expert on infant-parent communication, a rich and accessible gift book on baby “language,” gorgeously illustrated with forty black-and-white photographs. Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr. Kevin Nugent and acclaimed photographer Abelardo Morell capture the amazingly precocious communications strategies babies demonstrate from the moment they are born. Your Baby Is Speaking to You illustrates the full range of behaviors—early smiling to startling, feeding to sleeping, listening to your voice and recognizing your face. The newest research—including information on subtle and fleeting behaviors not seen or explained in any other book—illuminates the meaning of the things babies do that concern and delight new parents: – the language of yawning – the rich range of cries, and how to understand their meanings – baby’s earliest “sleep smiles” and sleep states, and what they signify. Your Baby Is Speaking To You delivers the information parents crave in gentle, accessible style while giving parents the confidence they need to respond to their own baby’s way of communicating during the very first astonishing days and the months beyond.