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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><a href="http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2014/08/05/whats-really-going-on-in-babies-brains-language-development/">What’s Really Going on in Babies Brains? Language Development</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From Eye On Early Education, Strategies for Children<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By Alyssa Haywoode<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">August 5, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This short <a href="http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2014/08/05/whats-really-going-on-in-babies-brains-language-development/">
blog article</a> has some good information about a new study around the importance of babies babbling and the role parents play in encouraging their baby to babble. This isn’t necessarily new information, just more solid data to support previous studies and
research in this area. Here are the main points from the article that you may want to share with parents, caregivers, and other early childhood professionals:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>“The results [of this study] emphasize the importance of talking to kids during social interactions even if they aren’t talking back yet.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>“The study has social implications, suggesting that the slow and exaggerated parentese speech – ‘Hiiiii! How are youuuuu?’ – may actually prompt infants to try to synthesize utterances themselves and imitate what they heard, uttering
something like ‘Ahhh bah bah baaah.’”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>“Parentese is very exaggerated, and when infants hear it, their brains may find it easier to model the motor movements necessary to speak.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If this topic is of interest to you, you may also want to <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/10/1410963111.full.pdf+html">
read the study itself</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Katie <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Support and Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us"><span style="color:blue">katie.anderson@state.or.us</span></a>, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="color:black"><img border="0" width="110" height="86" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CFB098.43AA3720" alt="Fizz Boom Read"><img border="0" width="69" height="90" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CFB098.43AA3720" alt="Girlandcloud"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Summer Reading 2014 at<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="http://libdir.osl.state.or.us/"><span style="color:blue">Oregon libraries</span></a><span style="color:#1F497D">!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Find a<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="http://www.summerfoodoregon.org/"><span style="color:blue">summer food site</span></a><span style="color:#1F497D">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The short blog article about the study: <a href="http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2014/08/05/whats-really-going-on-in-babies-brains-language-development/">
http://eyeonearlyeducation.com/2014/08/05/whats-really-going-on-in-babies-brains-language-development/</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The study: <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/10/1410963111.full.pdf+html">
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/10/1410963111.full.pdf+html</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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