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[COOING]

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[BABBLING]

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This video will help parents
understand the stages of baby

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talk, from birth through
the first 12 months.

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We'll cover early
speech milestones,

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from initial sounds, to those
all-important, much-awaited

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first words.

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Bye!

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Bye.

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We're going to show what
each stage sounds like,

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and explain what's going on
behind the scenes with babies

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hearing and understanding--
the foundations of good speech

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development.

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It starts with phonation stage.

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From birth to two months,
we hear vowels, consonants,

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throaty sounds.

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They're also developing
differentiated crying,

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which has two-fold importance.

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The first is it lets us know
that babies know that they need

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to communicate different needs.

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You want to eat something?

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And the second is that it
helps parents figure out

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what's going on with baby.

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From birth, baby is
already paying attention,

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and this is the foundation
for the development

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of speech sound.

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She's startling to loud noises.

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He recognizes your voice.

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He quiets, and eventually
smiles when you speak to him.

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There are increases or decreases
in sucking behavior in response

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to new and different
sounds, which

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is why it's so very important
that you speak to your baby.

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Research tells us babies need
to hear their first words about

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500 times before they say them.

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[COOING]

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From two to three months,
we have the goo stage.

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In addition to all
the other sounds,

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we start to hear the
typical cooing and gooing.

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[COOING]

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Yeah?

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And we really want to
hear these changes,

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because it says to us
that baby's hearing is OK,

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and that he or she is
starting to recognize

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the sounds of their language.

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Interestingly, babies
are born with the ability

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to say all the sounds in
all the languages, which

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is why it's so much easier
to learn a foreign language

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when you're young.

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And it's through hearing
the specific sounds

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in their own language--

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Can you say hi to Danielle?

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--that they begin to shape
their speech to that model.

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From four to six months
is the expansion stage.

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"Ah-ma."

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Babbling is starting to
sound more speech-like

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with many different sounds,
including P, B and M.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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[LAUGHING]

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They're laughing.

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They're vocalizing their
excitement, and sometimes,

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their displeasure.

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Growling, trilling,
squealing-- speech

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is becoming a game, as well
as a way to communicate.

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Anna, look!

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Babies are moving their eyes
in the direction of sounds.

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They're watching conversations.

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[BELL JINGLING]

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They're noticing toys
that make sounds--

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[XYLOPHONE CLANGING]

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--and they're starting to listen
to music with a different kind

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of purpose.

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From seven to ten months
is the canonical stage.

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Babbling has both long and
short groups of sounds.

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"La.

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La, la, la."

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They're using non-crying sounds
to get and keep your attention.

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"Aah!"

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This is when you'll see
babies do things like cough--

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[COUGHING]

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--and then if you
notice, they'll

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cough again to keep
getting your attention.

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They use gestures
to communicate,

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and they're imitating many
different speech sounds.

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From seven months
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enjoying games like peekaboo.

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These are the games that teach
the rhythm of conversation.

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Can I get it?

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"Da."

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They're really listening
when you speak to them.

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Can you roll it to me?

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And they're beginning to
respond to simple requests--

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Where's your elephant?

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--and they're recognizing
words for common objects.

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Can I have it?

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The variegated babble
stage is the very last step

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for real words.

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From 11 to 12
months, we're hearing

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varied babble and gibberish
that has the rhythms

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and patterns of speech.

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[BABBLING]

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In fact, you'd almost think
they were really talking.

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[BABBLING]

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What happened?

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Often, parents will
say to us, "It's

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like he's speaking
a foreign language!

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It sounds so much
like conversation."

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[BABBLING]

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Finally, around the
very first birthday,

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baby has one or two words.

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Bye!

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Bye.

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Although it might take a
little while before the sounds

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are really clear.

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Every baby is different.

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Some will hit their milestones
early, some a little bit later.

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Others will be right on time.

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Sometimes when your baby
is working on certain motor

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milestones, there may
be a few days when

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they're quieter than usual.

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It's to be expected.

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Most importantly, if
you're concerned--

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if your baby seems to
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you should talk to
your pediatrician,

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and ask whether a referral
to a speech pathologist

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would be a good idea.

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In the meantime, talk to
your baby as much as you can.

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[PIANO MUSIC]

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