The first three years have been proven to be critical years for your child's speech and language development. These skills remain at the forefront of later reading and general learning abilities. Designed to assist babies and toddlers, Talking Time™ will help stimulate your baby's speech and language development in everyday settings using fun and engaging activities.
$19.95
Talking Time encourages parents, grandparents, siblings, and caregivers to become active participants in the child's communication environment. You are important to the entire language learning process and help by shaping, modeling, and imitating speech and language.
Since the first three years of a child's life are critical for developing speech and language skills, Talking Time seeks to introduce additional windows of opportunity in the everyday activities. Your participation in these activities provides an exceptional opportunity to connect with the child and enrich communication experiences. Talking Time gives young children the chance to listen, imitate, name, respond to questions, and interact with characters they see and hear.
You will also learn fun and beneficial ways to communicate with your baby, giving them the right start for language and literacy. The educational activities in this DVD is perfect for helping any toddler or preschooler develop their language and speech skills.
The Talking Time™ cast of friendly animal puppets will show your baby the mouth movements and sounds needed to develop normal speech. Our work is based on over 60 years experience by two professors of speech-language pathology.
We are both licensed speech-language pathologists with more than 60 years combined experience in educational, hospital and private practice settings. Talking Time was created based on our research and clinical experience working with children.
The program was designed to encourage and stimulate speech and language skills of children 6 to 30 months old.
We are strong proponents of using everyday situations to encourage communication of young children. The DVD, puppets, music, and booklet have been field-tested with parents and children and has recieved positive, enthuastic feedback
Our philosophy at Talking Time™ is to help your baby develop speech and language skills in fun, natural and engaging ways. We do this by modeling simple activities that your baby can imitate and you can use in everyday situations.
Talking Time™ was developed for use by families and caregivers of infants and toddlers to encourage speech and language interaction. Did you know that YOU are the major influence in your child's speech and language development?
The way you talk, hold your baby and use everyday situations has a significant influence in stimulating your baby's speech. With just a little guidance, any parent or caregiver can effectively communicate with their baby.
The communication process begins at birth and requires sufficient opportunity to create positive language experiences. Early speech and language stimulation boosts a child's communication skills. Together, parents and caregivers can create the most effective communication environment for infants and toddlers.
These activities include using non-speech sounds, speech sounds, gestures and facial expression. Playing with and exploring lips, tongue and teeth are important for speech and language development. From the moment of birth, the baby is an active participant in infant-caregiver communication relationship.
Everyday activities - such as meals, bath time, play time and shopping provide the magic moments for stimulating your child's communication. As natural as it may seem, it is easy to miss Talking Time™ opportunities.
