Language and communication development
Baby is not only growing, they're also learning how to communicate! Ovia offers articles with information on baby's language and communication development.
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
How will I introduce the idea of a sibling to a toddler?
Pre-reading skills in the third year
Teaching your toddler their own strength
Your toddler and body language
Expanding your toddler’s vocabulary
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
Baby’s new favorite word: “no”
What are some common first words?
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
Benefits of reading to your baby
Baby's development and growth | Baby milestones
Smiling and newborns
Baby's health and wellness
Making immunization visits less stressful
What is elimination communication?
Raising baby | Parenting styles
Handling a swearing toddler
Best books for babies
Repeat after me, or on second thought, don’t: Teach your children well, but maybe not to swear just yet
Your body after baby | Mental health
Breaking the cycle of anxiety: How I model healthy habits for my own children so they won’t worry like I do
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
Handling questions you don’t know the answer to
Learning to talk in a multilingual household
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
How to talk to your child about race and racism
Should I make my child hug relatives?
Baby's health and wellness | Baby check ups
Making immunization visits less stressful
Does your toddler mumble?
6 things your baby’s cries might mean
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
Communicating your toddler’s boundaries to relatives
Your toddler’s grasp on grammar
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
When you and your toddler don’t see eye-to-eye
Crib talk and your toddler
When do toddlers start to speak in sentences?
Baby's development and growth
It takes a village: How community programs can enrich your baby’s life
Easy read-aloud techniques to help boost language development
Answering the big questions
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
When to step in to toddler arguments
Baby's development and growth
The right kinds of books for two-and-a-half-year-olds
Raising baby
Encouraging your toddler’s imagination: Beyond pretend play
Life as a new parent | Relationship with friends and family
When your child and your friend’s child don’t get along
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
Talking to your toddler about tough stuff
Baby's development and growth
6 reasons why the toddler years are the best years
Dinner conversation and your toddler
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
The evolution of parallel play
Talking to your toddler about their own feelings
Teaching toddlers about indoor voices
Teaching your toddler to tell the truth
Raising baby | Baby activities
Fun and games: Rhyming
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
Talking to your toddler about your feelings
Raising baby | Parenting styles
Apologizing to your toddler
When should I be concerned about my baby not talking?
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
Your toddler and the word ‘why’
Swearing around children
Encouraging your one-year-old’s growing vocabulary
Signs of receptive language in your contrary toddler
What is holophrastic speech and why is my child using it?
The evolution of the bedtime story
Ways to build your baby’s vocabulary
Translating baby talk
How to help baby say your name
When do most babies start talking?
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
Helping your child learn about object permanence
Baby “sign language”: the other imitation game
Helping your toddler practice conversational skills
What if my child still isn’t speaking in sentences?
Why does my toddler keep telling the same joke over and over again?
Baby's first year | Twins and multiples
Twins and mysterious connections
Should I correct my toddler’s pronunciation?
Talking to your toddler about their day
Games to expand your toddler’s vocabulary
Language development in the third year
Baby's development and growth | Baby milestones
Second year milestones
Baby's development and growth | Social and emotional development
When your toddler is aggressive
Your toddler and the full sentences of the future
Baby's development and growth | Baby milestones
13 months old
Encouraging language development as your toddler grows
Echoing and learning to speak
Toddler storytelling and self-narratives
Your toddler’s secret langauge: Translating toddler-ese
Raising baby | Parenting styles
What should I have my baby call me?
Baby's development and growth | Physical development
Pointing as communication
