Playful language support for children
Babies and toddlers are already born with all the abilities for interaction with their environment. This includes the Vocalizations, facial expressions, gestures and body language. This means they can already communicate with other people from the beginning of their lives. This is also important, because the communication of immediate needs ensures survival. Whether it is individual sounds that express the desire for contact or the baby has to cry and scream to express its discomfort: Parents usually intuitively know what their baby wants to communicate and can understand the sounds and facial expressions of the little ones like spoken language.
Gradually toddlers learn to speak, and the language development of a child is a very long process. Although the language center in the brain is already present at birth and the organs and muscles needed for speaking are developed, each child learns its language skills at its own pace. Therefore the age at which a child begins to speak also varies greatly. In the same way all children differ in how quickly they can expand their vocabulary and form sentences.
When do children start to talk?
Some children say their first word as early as nine months, others exactly on their first birthday, and others take until their second year to do so. In the course of the third year the number of words that children actively incorporate into their speech grows explosively. Experts currently assume that children learn the first 50 words only very slowly. Later they can learn up to 10 new words per day. This phase lasts approximately from the 18th month of life to the 6th year
Supporting language development is fun
In general, children like to talk and are very creative with sounds, words, sentences and their voice. Everyday situations can easily be used to support children in the beautiful process of language development. Because many words and also Grammar and pronunciation are expanded and reinforced through active practice: For a puzzle or board game, reading or being read to, looking at picture books, experimenting or singing. The possibilities are diverse
Support communicative development through play
Foster communicative development with dolls
A wonderful way to start a conversation is role play. Especially when playing with dolls children process things they have experienced in their daily life they have, and often take on the role of a parent. Often they reenact conversations or sometimes remain completely quiet. But even then they tell a story in their head and thus expand their language skills.
Foster communicative development with children's games
Language development in children can also be fostered during joint play promote. The HABA classic Orchard not only expands vocabulary, language comprehension and sentence forms, it has brought children and their families lots of fun for many generations.
Foster communicative development with children's books
Stories encourage children to speak. That is why reading aloud is so important for language development and also strengthens children in their personality and social competence. Regular reading aloud at a set time thus becomes an intensive cuddle and feel-good time.
Babies can already play with buggy books, from one year old children are old enough for their first board picture books with simple illustrations and short rhymes. Later they enjoy small stories and first non-fiction books about their daily life, their favorite animals, vehicles or toys.
