From Birth, Engage Your Child With Talk by Jane E. Brody, New York Times, September 29, 2009.
Plenty of good advice but frightening that it apparently called for.
Plenty of good advice but frightening that it apparently called for.
I am not the only one alarmed by modern parental behavior. Randi Jacoby, a speech and language specialist in New York, recently told me in an e-mail message: "Parents have stopped having good communications with their young children, causing them to lose out on the eye contact, facial expression and overall feedback that is essential for early communication development.
"Young children require time and one-on-one feedback as they struggle to formulate utterances in order to build their language and cognitive skills. The most basic skills are not being taught by example, and society is falling prey to the quick response that our computer generation has become accustomed to.
"Parents need to be reminded of the significance of their communicative model."
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