Teaching Your Baby Communication Skills That Will Benefit Him/her In The Future

From early in infancy, it is evident that Baby is aware of his environment and has the desire to communicate

. There are many ways parents and caregivers can develop communication skills in Baby.

Introducing signing to hearing babies has the benefit of allowing Adult and Baby to communicate before Baby's vocal chords are developed enough to speak. This silent communication raises self-esteem, eliminates the frustration of not being able to communicate and engages Baby as an active participant in the learning environment.

Affective communication between Adult and Baby can be encouraged through touch, eye contact, vocalization and listening - all part of the greet ritual. Baby can communicate in a social interaction by gesturing a hello sign such as waving, blowing a kiss, or smiling even before the word hello is spoke.

While talking and making sounds, pause and give Baby a chance to respond. This helps Baby to learn "turn taking" which is fundamental to conversation.

For language acquisition to progress naturally, Baby needs varied and frequent language experiences, including opportunities to "converse" with you, hear you talk about events as they happen, hear conversation between others, and be exposed to books.

Adults unconsciously tend to speak to babies in a very musical way, in a slow tempo, with exaggerated stress, variations in pitch and volume, and changes in vocal timbre, or "color". Vocal exchanges between Adult and Baby tend to be in rhythmically predictable patterns, allowing the two partners to learn to take turns in conversation. Some scientists believe that the more musical these exchanges, the more communicative they are.

Baby is learning more than she can say as she watches and listens to you reciting this rhyme. Infants younger than six months can distinguish a wide range of speech contrasts. By either months many can distinguish familiar words from unfamiliar words.

Although Baby may not yet be able to converse, he loves to engage in 'pretend' conversations, even one using nonsense words / sounds. He may watch the Adult's mouth to see how those interesting sounds are made. After a few repetitions of this activity, he may also begin to anticipate the final "chase" as he learns the sequence of the activity. Talking to Baby with interesting and patterned speech helps him break the code of language.

Singing nonsense syllable sin songs assists Baby with auditory discrimination of different sounds. By using nonsense sounds that incorporate vowels you are giving Baby an opportunity to develop her pre-language skills because she can imitate these sounds while you sing.

Pattern awareness is crucial to learning and memory. Just as in story reading, singing directly exposes participants to the patterns of language including rhythm, speech sounds, syntax and rhyme.

by: Cheow Yu Yuan

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