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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
to a year, they're
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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
be lagging behind--
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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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