Language-building ideas
Talk about what the child notices, respond to attempts to communicate, read together, repeat familiar words, and leave room for gestures, sounds, and words without turning every interaction into a test.
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Speech and Language: Parent Resource Hub
General, practical starting points for the question you are living right now. Use what fits your child and family, and treat health, safety or developmental concerns as a conversation for a qualified professional.
Communication resources
Look at communication as a whole child experience.
Speech and language development includes many kinds of communication, such as gestures, understanding, sounds, words, interaction, play, and conversation. General milestone information can provide context, but it cannot determine from a webpage whether an individual child has a delay or another developmental difference.
Milestone context
Use Kala's general milestone resource for age-based context and questions you may want to bring to a qualified professional.
Current guides
View the Speech Development Guide or Baby Sign Language Guide for current product details.
If you have a concern: a pediatrician, qualified speech-language pathologist, and when appropriate a hearing professional can assess the individual child. Kala does not diagnose speech, language, hearing, autism, or other developmental conditions.