LESSON_8_GUIDE_IN_COMMUNICATING_WITH_THE_BABY.pptx

LESSON_8_GUIDE_IN_COMMUNICATING_WITH_THE_BABY.pptx

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  Guide in Communicatingand Interacting with Infants and Toddlers Prepared by: Maria Cristina C. Delmo, SST-III
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  LESSON OBJECTIVES: After goingthrough this module, you are expected to: 1. Discuss the guidelines in communicating and interacting infants and toddlers. 2. Explain the timeline if child’s speech ability. Record patiently the baby’s speech and action development.
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  Learning to communicateis a unique process and specific to each infant, toddler and family. Many aspects of a child’s environment may contribute to challenges with communication development. A family may wonder about their young child’s communication and language development and feel uncertain about what they are observing, as well as what to expect. As an infant and toddler caregiver, you have an opportunity to learn first from a family and consider offering additional developmental information, including possible warning signs.
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  Effective communication, languageand literacy skills are important to young children’s self-expression, their development of social relationships, and to their learning. The foundation for these skills begins during the earliest months and years after birth. When families and caregivers engage in and sustain interactions based on an infant’s or toddler’s development and interests, they help strengthen their role as a partner in communication. In fact, research demonstrates that these skills depend greatly on language experiences during infancy and toddlerhood. Children who hear fewer words are engaged in less conversation before age 3 with their caregivers, and have dramatically smaller vocabularies than children who have richer early language experiences (Hart & Risley, 1995).Communication and language development happen best in the context of consistent, caring and responsive relationships.
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  GUIDES IN COMMUNICATINGAND INTERACTING WITH INFANTS AND TODDLERS All through the baby’s first year, there’s a lot to do to encourage baby’s communication skills. And it’s easy. All you need to do is smile, talk, sing, and read to the baby. Why focus on communicating with babies? Because early speech and language skills are associated with success in developing reading, writing, and interpersonal skills, both later in childhood and later in life. Interpersonal skills, which involve interactions with others, intrapersonal skills are focused inward. They include self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-motivation. Self- awareness: Helps children recognize their emotions and understand how these emotions influence their behavior.
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  Here are someguides in communicating and interacting infants and toddlers: 1. Smile and pay attention. Long before they can speak clearly, babies understand the general meaning of what you're saying. They also absorb emotional tone. Encourage baby's early attempts to communicate with you with loving attention:
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   Smile oftenat your baby, especially when he is cooing, gurgling, or otherwise vocalizing with baby talk.  Look at the baby as he or she babbles and laughs, rather than looking away, interrupting, or talking with someone else.  Be patient as you try to decode the infant's baby talk and nonverbal communication, like facial expressions, gurgling, or babbling sounds that could signal either frustration or joy.  Make time to give baby lots of loving attention, so he can "speak" to you with his or her baby talk, even when you're busy with other tasks. cooing- (of a pigeon or dove) make a soft murmuring sound. "ringdoves cooed among the branches" gurgling- making or characterized by a hollow bubbling sound. "a faint gurgling noise"
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  2. Imitate thebaby. Right from the start, baby talk should be a two-way street. By imitating the baby, you'll send an important message: what he is feeling and trying to communicate matters to you.  Have back-and-forth conversations in baby talk to teach the baby the give-and-take of adult conversation.  Imitate baby's vocalizations -- "ba-ba" or "goo-goo" -- then wait for him to make another sound, and repeat that back.  Do your best to respond, even when you don't understand what the baby is trying to say.  Reinforce communication by smiling and mirroring facial expressions.  Because gestures are a way babies try to communicate, imitate baby's gestures, as well.
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  3. Talk oftento the baby. Babies love to hear you talk -- especially to them, and especially in a warm, happy voice. Babies learn to speak by imitating the sounds they hear around them. So the more you talk to the baby, the faster he will acquire speech and language skills.  Many adults use a special tone of voice when talking baby talk -- a high-pitched voice with exaggerated expression. This natural baby talk mimics the female voice, which babies the world over associate with feeding and comfort. Keep in mind that talking "baby talk" won't prevent or delay infant from learning adult speech later.
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   Engage baby'slistening skills by talking often to him throughout the day, narrating your activities together. Talk as you're feeding, dressing, carrying, and bathing your baby, so he or she begins to associate these sounds of language with everyday objects and activities.  Repeat simple words like "mama" and "bottle" often and clearly so your baby begins to hear familiar words and associate them with their meaning.
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  How babies learnto talk? Parents often wonder where their child's speech ability is on the learning curve. The timeline for each child varies greatly: Some babies can say a few words at 12 months, but others don't talk until they're 18 months old -- and then spout short sentences.  At 1 to 3 months: Babies already love to hear the sound of your voice and may smile, laugh, get quiet, or get excited and wave their arms when you talk or sing to them. Infant's baby talk usually starts with cooing and gurgling, with some vowel sounds, like "ooh," appearing at around two months.
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  It's not tooearly to start reading to infants. Being read to helps stimulate the developing brain. Many babies are soothed by music, and begin to recognize simple songs by reacting with smiles, gurgles, and waving arms and legs.  At 4 to 7 months: Babies now realize that their baby talk has an impact on their parents. They babble more and watch for their parents' reaction. Babies experiment with more sounds and intonations. They begin to raise and lower the pitch of their voices as they babble, just as adults do when asking a question or adding emphasis.
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  Introducing baby tosimple, short words like "cup" and "ball," hold up the object to show that it's related to your speech. Read colorful picture books to the baby. Point to the pictures, and name simple objects to reinforce his early speech development and model the importance of language and reading. Practice using short words and then pausing. This will allow the baby to respond with his or her own baby talk and encourage the give-and-take interaction that's needed for adult conversation.
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   At 8to 12 months: It's a unique joy for parents to hear their baby say "mama" or "dada" for the first time. But the first few times may actually be accidental. Baby talk at this age is still primarily a hit-or- miss playing with sounds like "ga-ga," "da-da," and "ba-ba."
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  Smile, face yourbaby, and continue to repeat simple words clearly throughout the day. This will help the baby's growing brain to store the sounds and meanings of words for everyday objects. At this age, babies love one-on-one interaction with you. They also love games and songs with language, like "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Patty-Cake." Toddlerhood is a critical time for language development, although even this varies among children, because to master language, children need practice time. A child who is 2 years old and does no talk in two-word, noun and verb simple sentences needs a careful assessment to determine the cause.
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  A noun isthe name of something - a person, place, thing, or idea. Building, window, and garden are three examples. A verb is a word that expresses an action or state of being. Common verbs include like, want, be, or think. sample verb words for baby: sample nounwords for baby:
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  A word thatis used frequently by toddlers and that is a manifestation of their developing autonomy is “no”. Toddlers may use the word to mean they are refusing a task, or they do not understand it, or they may only be practicing a sound that they have noticed has potent effects on those around them.
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  Autonomy allows achild to manage on their own with everyday tasks, become more and more independent, and make their own decisions. The need for autonomy evolves throughout childhood and adolescence. Becoming autonomous means gradually gaining a form of control over oneself and one's life.
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  See Your Baby'sDoctor If ... During the first year, baby should respond to your baby talk by cooing, gurgling, and beginning to babble back. He should respond to "no," to his or her own name, and to simple requests like "come here." So while normal language development has wide variation, it's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to child's growth. Have baby's speech evaluated at each well-baby checkup, and talk with your baby's doctor if you're concerned about delayed speech or a hearing problem. And remember: Babies love to hear your voice, so don't be embarrassed by your own "silly" baby talk. silly- having or showing a lack of common sense or judgment; absurd and foolish.