What is the one thing that you would never ever missed it in a day? I would say, talking to my family. Everyday in the morning, I would greet them ‘Good morning.’; asking what should we eat for the lunch/ dinner; and even spending time together on a comfy couch watching a sad movie. Without coming to your conscious, we TALK every single day, and also INTERACT with each other from time to time. So, SPEECH , LANGUAGE and COMMUNICATION are the essence of our social life. Do

What can I do to help on my kid's language development? 0 month to 1 years old Check your child's ability to hear, and pay attention to ear problems and infections, es pecially when they keep occurring. Reinforce your baby's communication attempts by looking at him or her, speaking, and imitating his or her vocalizations. Repeat his or her laughter and facial expressions. Teach your baby to imitate actions, such as peekaboo, clapping, blowing kisses, pat-a-cake, itsy bitsy sp

以家庭为中心的治疗方法(family-centred approach) 或由父母实施的干预措施(parent-implemented intervention) 的核心价值是使父母有能力辅助及促进孩子语言发展和学习。大量的研究发现，家长实施干预方法会为孩子与该家庭在短期甚至是长期带来巨大的益处。如果您受过良好的训练，懂得辅助孩子学习的技巧，则您的孩子可以在任何时候，任何地方，在日常生活中跟您一起学习。您们的亲子关系也会更加融洽。 让我们通过学习语言刺激技巧(language stimulation techniques) 来开始辅助孩子学习的旅程。在辅助孩子学习的同时，祝福您也能享受与孩子的互动。

The core values of family-centred approach or parent-implemented intervention is empowering parents to be the facilitator of your child's language development and learning. Tons of researches have been showing the great benefits of parent-implemented intervention approach in long term intervention outcome. If you are well-coached to facilitate your child's learning, your child can learn with you at any time, any place, in any activity you both are doing together, forever. Isn

0 to 5 years old is the critical period of children's language development, which means most of the foundational language skills are acquired in this period of time for children to be able to converse with others and learn new knowledge/skills through language. This list is a quick screening checklist I compiled with referring to American Speech and Hearing Association (www.asha.org) Hope this information helps you to understand more about children's language development and