Babies learn to talk during their first year of life from adults, they begin with sounds like “aah”, “ooh”, listening their own voice, and then they started to make identifiable words like “mama” or “dada”.
Experts have done researches that demonstrate babies process of knowledge begins when they are in the utero, they are capable to distinguish their mother’s voice. That is why they say it is good for the baby listening music during pregnancy, to estimulate them.
During the first three months of life they start to combine some consonants and vowels, and their way of communication is crying.
A piercing scream may mean they are hungry, while a whimpering, detached cry may signal that they need a diaper change.
While they grown they have another types of gurgles, sighs and coos.
When they are 5 months old they could respond to their names and say “mama” and “dada”. Between 4 to 6 months they try to imitate sounds producing funny sounds, like monologues without sense, vocalization now is like a game, the like how it sound and how their mouth feels.
During their 7 and 12 months of life they bubble and their noises sound as if they have sense, that’s why they are trying to imitate us, tones and patterns. This “conversation” between two twins could be a good example of that:
It is good to talk to them and read them to encourage their learning process. Babies understand simple instructions. They understand what “no” means. They are capable to communicate with intention, request, refuse to someone. They point to what they want or at the person they want to be or caught the attention.
A good example of how faster they learn could be this:
A
baby 1 year old can understand more than the speak, he knows around 50 words
and their vocabulary is increasing every day. They play with their tone of
voice, mixing babbles with real words. Like this little girl talking to her father:
We
could improve their process of knowledge, talking to her or him as a talker, describing
what you are doing, and what is
happening around.
Reading
is also a good way to improve their vocabulary, and show them how the sentences
are distributed and how is the sound of words and sentences, some books caught
their attention with pictures and sounds.
When
he or she talks to you, listen him or her, it is good to them to know that you
are interested in what they say.
By: Elena Blanco Corbacho
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