Your Baby Can Read....Research?

[James Morgan]

Hi Liz,

I hope that you will also follow the wise advice to enjoy your baby and not 
get too anxious about whether she is meeting artificial developmental 
deadlines. You daughter is 16 months old and using one-word utterances - 
that is well within the norms. I remember that when my own daughter was 19 
months, she had a total vocabulary of four words: mama, dada, wawa ("dog") 
and yaya ("doll"). The average productive vocabulary size at that age is 
about 80, so we were starting to get a bit worried about her. For no good 
reason, as it turned out. She soon started talking much more and using 
sentences, not just one word at a time. After I took her for her check up 
just before her second birthday, on the way out to the car, she said to me 
"Dad, you know what I like about going to the doctor's office is getting to 
play with all the toys in the waiting room." Quite a sentence! She is now a 
highly verbal young adult.

Children follow different developmental pathways. I suspect that trying to 
force any child down any pre-planned route is never optimal.

Best,
   Jim Morgan

At 05:43 PM 3/2/2010, you wrote:
>I really Appreciate that you all took to time to inform me and give me
>your opinions on the subject matter. I knew it seemed to good to be
>true and that is why i preferred to ask Professionals and experts in
>Language before i continued with it. I love my daughter and I agree
>that after reading all of your input it would be just a trick that you
>are teaching the child. I do read to her every day, and in three
>languages, so im hoping her language comes soon for she only says
>simple words like Agua, Mama, Dada, Teta Etc.
>But once again thank you so much for easing my worries by sharing with
>me all of your wonderful knowledge.
>
>Sincerely,
>Liz Pattison
>Undergraduate Research Assistant
>University of Texas at El Paso
>
>On Mar 1, 6:48 pm, Jean Berko Gleason <glea... at bu.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Donna  ... thanks..  I couldn't resist.....
> >
> > Jean
> >
> > Donna Jackson wrote:
> > > thank-you...this was the best comment ever!
> > > Donna Jackson-Maldonado
> >
> > > Jean Berko Gleason escribi�:
> > >> Hi  this is a very interesting
>
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