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