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Home › Articles › Newborn and Infant Months › An Infant's Mind

An Infant's Mind

Baby's Brain Development

By Teri Brown

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The Language Connection
Doman says when you grow one area of the brain, all areas will be enhanced to some degree. An overall program of stimulation and opportunity will enhance language development. She says it's like a domino effect.

"Newborns have very poor respiration at first," Doman says. "This makes it hard to make sounds at will. As the baby sees better he wants to move more. If he is given the opportunity to move on the floor, he will move. When he is given the chance to move more often, his respiration is improved. As he is able to breathe better, he makes more sounds. The more sounds he makes the more Mother responds to these sounds. The more Mother and Baby talk to each other the sooner Mother breaks the sound barrier and understands what the baby is actually saying."

Doman believes that babies are desperate to be understood. Most babies will not be understood until they are 12 to 14 months old. She claims this process could occur by 3 to 4 months instead.

Fran殩s Thibaut is the director and founder of The Language Workshop for Children in New York City. He started The Language Workshop for Children in 1973 after teaching French at the high school and college levels. After much research he realized that there was no school anywhere in the United States specializing in teaching languages to young children (let aone infants and toddlers). So he opened his own program to begin applying his own theories and teaching methods. His program successfully teaches infants other languages.


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