Additional Resources

  • Back-and-forth or contingent interactions
    exchanges where a caregiver times her responses to a child’s behavior
    Canonical babbling
    producing the same consonant and vowel over and over, such as dadada
    Infant-directed speech
    a special tone and style of speech used to talk to young children. It’s also called parentese
    Joint attention
    shared attention between social partners to an object or event
    Overextension
    using a word to describe more object categories than it actually represents
    Underextension
    failing to extend a word to other objects in the same category
    Vocabulary spurt
    rapid growth in word learning