Get your baby talking with The Speech Sisters

My New Life

Kate Garlinge

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4.7 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Language milestones are a hot topic. When should my baby be speaking? And how many words? So much is tied up in our ability to communicate with our little people. On today’s episode of My New Life, we call in the experts to get your baby talking!

While the timeline for those treasured first words varies from child to child, there are some time-tested tricks to help the process along. Spoiler: Don’t be afraid to sing to your child. Jessica Rolph, your host, is accompanied by speech language experts Bridget Hillsberg and Brooke Dwyer, aka The Speech Sisters.

Key Takeaways:

[1:54] How much is nature vs nurture when it comes to a child developing language?

[3:13] Bridget and Brooke talk about their babies’ language development.

[4:47] The Speech Sisters’ number one tip for parents: imitate.

[6:05] What’s the difference between baby talk and imitating?

[8:01] Another tip for parents: Act it out.

[9:25] Listening, labeling, and demonstrating play an important role in encouraging language development.

[12:37] What constitutes saying the first word versus babbling? If you know what they mean when they say it, does that count as a word?

[13:23] How much should a child be talking? What’s typical? And when should we worry?

[16:04] Bridget and Brooke share stories about children who received early intervention to assist in their language development.

[18:25] Can a child learn language through screens?

[21:17] How much of a child’s language development stems from parent intervention versus screens or some other outside service?

[23:15] Parents have a tremendous impact on their children’s language acquisition.

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:13.9	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:20.0	I'm Jessica Rolfe, and this is my new life,
0:24.1	a love every podcast. While the science aligns on what's healthy for a baby's brain development,
0:30.1	when it comes to how to care for our babies, there's a seemingly endless supply of competing
0:34.9	perspectives. Parents are swimming in advice on sleep, feeding,
0:39.8	parenting philosophies. In this season of the podcast, we aim to provide a variety of curated
0:46.1	perspectives so you can make informed choices for your family.
0:58.8	As we wrap up this season of the podcast, we bring you our most downloaded episode to date. Get your baby talking with the Speech Sisters, which we originally recorded one
1:04.4	year ago in September of 2021.
1:08.6	Mama, da-da, are there two more enchanting words? Some version of these words will likely make it into a child's vocabulary, but not always on our timeline. Language milestones are a hot topic. When should my baby be speaking? And how many words? So much is tied up in our ability to communicate with
1:29.3	our little people. Our guests on the show today are familiar to many of you. Their specialty
1:34.9	is helping parents to get their babies talking. Bridget Hillsburg and Brooke Dwyer are speech
1:41.2	and language experts and the sisters behind the speech sisters. Welcome Bridget and Brooke Dwyer are speech and language experts and the sisters. Welcome, Bridget and Brooke.
1:48.8	Hi. Thank you so much for having us. We're so excited to be here today. So I want to get right into it.
1:55.5	I've heard that the more a child is spoken to, the faster those early brain connections are formed.
2:01.6	I don't think that parents realize how much impact they can have on their child's language
2:05.3	development.
2:06.2	So how much of it, let's really break this down, how much is nature versus nurture?
2:10.4	There are hundreds of thousands of studies out there to support the fact that parents have
2:17.3	so much of an impact on their child's language
2:20.5	development. The more that a parent talks to their baby in the beginning, in the early, early
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