Loney,+Sydney

Loney, Sydney Loney, Sydney. "Help Your Infant Communicate - Just the Facts, Baby." //Pregnancy Due Date Calculator, Positive Parenting and Baby Advice, Free Baby Stuff - Just the Facts, Baby//. 6 May 2008. Web. 06 Jan. 2011. [].
 * "A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical School found infants learn language earlier than previously thought–babies just seven months old may be aware of how sentences are organized and can pick specific words out of fluent speech well before they can talk."
 * "Most adults speak differently to infants than they do to other adults."
 * "Infant-directed speech or "parentese" is slower, has a higher pitch, longer pauses, more repetition and simplified sentence structure."
 * "Studies show babies not only prefer parentese, but it helps them learn language by focusing their attention and making it easier for them to recognize individual words and patterns."
 * "Babies usually start communicating with their own signs around eight or nine months, such as waving 'bye bye' or lifting their arms to show they want to be picked up."
 * "Typically babies can say between 10 and 20 words by the time they're 18 months old, although signing can help increase their vocabulary."
 * "Research shows babies exposed to sign language can sign five to six months before they can speak words."