{"title":"The Babbling Is Getting More Urgent. The Words Are Still Not Coming. And the Worry Is Starting to Creep In","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis guide is about language: how it develops, what supports it, what the developing brain needs from the environment and the people in it, and what the research from speech-language pathology says about the first words and the period that precedes them. It is about understanding the rich and complex communicative life that exists before the first conventional word, and about the specific things that parents and caregivers can do, say, and set up to give that pre-word communication the best possible conditions for becoming language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt is also about baby signs: an area of particular promise and particular confusion in the early language literature. The confusion is understandable. The marketing around baby signing programmes is often disconnected from the research. This guide covers what the speech pathology research actually shows about baby signs - and it is more nuanced, more interesting, and ultimately more hopeful than either the most enthusiastic commercial claims or the most sceptical dismissals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAnd it is about the worry. The developmental window between approximately ten months and eighteen months - the period when language development is most visible, most variable, and most intensely scrutinised by anxious parents - is the period this guide is primarily addressed to. Not because everything needs to be fixed, but because everything in this period can be supported. And support, done right, is one of the most meaningful things a parent can offer.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0715\/1235\/9129\/collections\/The_Babbling_Is_Getting_More_Urgent._The_Words_Are_Still_Not_Coming._And_the_Worry_Is_Starting_to_Creep_In_2.png?v=1784008561","url":"https:\/\/arfstandard.com\/collections\/the-babbling-is-getting-more-urgent-the-words-are-still-not-coming-and-the-worry-is-starting-to-creep-in.oembed","provider":"ARF Standard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}