One of my fondest memories as a child was reading books with my mother; without even realising it, our reading adventures had a positive impact on my language and literacy development. It is not an unknown fact that reading to your children from an early age can influence their literacy and language development, but what exact skills do children develop […]

My previous article briefly describes a few prelinguistic skills that children acquire at a young age. These skills are necessary in-order for children to develop spoken language; one very important skill is vocalization. Most of the time children learn to crawl before walking and it is no different for language development; children need to produce plenty of vocalizations before they […]

“My child is too young to talk, they don’t need speech therapy”, I have heard this statement too many times to count!  I understand where parents who think this way are coming from. Why would you be worried about language development if your child is not expected to talk yet at their age? Well, In actual fact it might be […]