It happens many times that there are children who, as they grow up, present different problems in the development of their language, and often derive from poor stimulation of the baby's prelanguage. Therefore, it is important teach the baby to communicate before he can speak
It is very important that, during the first years of our children's life, we favor situations in which different basic aspects are promoted and developed that, without them, the subsequent acquisition of language may be deficient and may even need specific treatment. .
I do not want to say with this that if none of this is done, our son or daughter will speak badly in the future (since each child is a world and we can find pleasant surprises), but if it is proven that there is a direct relationship between environment stimulation and baby development.
Thus, one of the first skills that we must foster in our babies is the so-called interactive reciprocity. What does this mean? Very easy: we must create a mutual bond between us and our little one. Without this relationship, it is very difficult for the child to feel the need to want to communicate with their environment.
In order to consolidate this important relationship, and that will grow as time goes by, we must try to encourage the child to generate a selective attention to different stimuli that I can see and / or hear, such as our voice, our look or our facial expressions ...
Situations in which we maintain a good eye contact with the child and favoring him through different gestures or sounds, provide him with a rich variety of stimuli (that is, not always speak with the same tone of voice, vary the repertoire of caresses, auditory stimulate him with different sounds ...) or play to imitate our baby will help this selective attention to be gradually established.
It is very important too reinforce different social interactions of the baby, such as the social smile, the contact (both ocular and physical), the vocalizations ..., in order to be able to respond to their demands accordingly. And what better time for this than during the daily routines: grooming, dressing ...?
A very important role we have as parents is that of give intention to baby behaviors. The child, since he is very young, performs different actions that we must interpret to give them meaning. A very clear example is when our baby moves his arms from side to side and we interpret those movements as he wants us to catch him.
Another very important resource to help our baby during his prelinguistic stage is the so-called baby-talk, or what is the same, talk as if we were babies. This is a very strong resource that will help us at all times to maintain this important relationship that we are creating between our son and us.
As our baby grows, all these attitudes that we have developed will provide you with the necessary tools to understand that their behaviors have different repercussions in the surrounding environment. Thus, it will be easier for him to anticipate what is going to happen in the routines of his day to day (again we can remember how our children do to take them in their arms and why they have concluded to do so So).
In order for the baby to reach this conclusion we have had to establish different stable routines that are always the same, in addition to using different signals that are easy to differentiate from each other in order to know what was happening at each moment (we do not do the same things when we are at bath time than when we are at mealtime).
Finally, what we will achieve with all these behaviors that we are talking about is that of make our child have the ability to act with intention. That is, the little one discovers that through his actions he will be able to act on his environment and achieve different things depending on how he does.
That is why our role as teach the baby to communicate before he can speak since we will be laying the foundations so that, in the future, I can achieve everything that is proposed knowing how to do it properly.
