Babies start cooing as early as 2 months with vowel sounds, and start to produce different types of babbling by 4-10 months of age with early developing consonant sounds including p, b, m, t, d, n, h, w, and y. Learn how to encourage these early developing speech sounds with your baby.

Verbal routines are a simple and effective early language strategy to help increase your baby or toddler’s understanding of and use of words in meaningful contexts.

Once your baby is starting to imitate words and use new words independently, it can be hard to figure out how to get your toddler to use their new vocabulary. Giving verbal choices is an easy trick to help your toddler practice their new words and learn to use words to make requests.

Cloze statements can be used to encourage your little one to participate in singing songs, reading books, and making comments about routine tasks, by leaving off the last word of a familiar phrase or sentence.