Summary: In this episode, I am discussing an article entitled “MIT Brain Study: Back-And-Forth Talk Key To Developing Kids’ Verbal Skills” (February 14, 2018) that was shared on the Zero to Three website. When researchers studied language development in young children, what they found was that it was not the language used in a child’s environment but the amount of back and forth language between the adult and caregiver that had the impact on a child’s developing language skills. In this solo show, I talk about what that means in terms of how we interact with young children and support their language development.
