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That's My Name!
Babies and Name Recognition
By Katherine Bontrager
Burnett and her partner had no plan to help their girls learn their names – there were no games or activities that spurred this learning on. And that's the way Hirsh-Pasek says it should be.
"Parents need to just act natural, and children will learn their names," Hirsh-Pasek says. "Infants learn their names because we use their names a lot. We talk to them in register, which means we speak with slowed down, simpler sentences. We call them by name to try to attract their attention, so what often happens is that we use their names more often than we would in normal conversations with older children or adults."
Parents will sometimes attempt to supplement the recognition process by introducing visual stimuli, such as showing an infant his or her name in a book or by stenciling it across the bedroom wall. But Hirsh-Pasek says that there's no need for visual stimuli, or any need to make the process faster. Instead, this bit of learning remains an auditory one, which means it relies on parents communicating with their little ones.
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