Jane E Brody explains in
"Child development: language takes on new significance" that scientists are discovering new ways of finding out if the child's language skills are developing normally or abnormally. She believes in encouraging the infants to smile and getting them to make sounds is a very good stimulation, in order for them to avoid problems with language later on in their school years. After years of talking about and explaining how great motor skills is for the development of a child, she has found out that language skills is the top factor of a child's (cognitive ability). But she believes in giving a lot more attention to the child's motor skills, like turning on their side, crawling and walking. Researchers are working and developing tests to help physicians detect language problems before the child even says their first word.
Janet Hopson's demonstrates in
"Can babies read"?, the language of children. She recognized that the expressions and signs people were showing them, helped the children learn. She was questioned whether a young child should be able to read. Neurologists have discovered that a baby's brain is stimulated by the shaping of (neural circuits). By depriving a child from birth to age 6 without language, they will have problems that last a long time in their vocabulary, reading and writing. Some educators believe in reading programs and ways to motivate and learn at an early age. But reading experts give great advice to read out loud to them daily from as early as an infant. She believes getting into nice talks with children and while reading to them, avoid pressuring or pushing them and they will soon discover that reading is a wonderful world that they will want to explore.
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| This image shows that reading out loud to infants will help them learn at an early age. [source] | |
According to an article called
"what infants know and what they have to learn about language" by Jacques Mehler, he analyzes the beginning stage of a baby's introduction of language and communication. He explains that some forms of communication are shown such as, sounds in babies. Jacques argues that the parent or caretaker of the baby is allowing the baby to perceive some form of structure in small amounts of information. He believes the babies process what is being said to them and after repetition, there is memorization. Jacques claims that these practices are very much important in the first year of life in learning language.
