🧠 Wellbeing · 0 to 3 years
🗣️ Baby language development: talking with your child from 0 to 3 years
Language grows through responsive interaction, with broad individual variation.
Milestones and everyday habits
1. What to prepare
Talk, sing and read in familiar languages, following the child’s interests and allowing turns.
2. What to check
Ask for hearing and developmental assessment if concerned or if skills are lost; do not diagnose from a single milestone or delay referral because a child is multilingual.
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