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An Infant's Mind
Baby's Brain Development
By Teri Brown
"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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Re: An Infant's Mind by 8th grade genius! XD on 05/13/2009 12:18AM
AWESOME!!! this is excellent information and i would like to thank you for giving me something to put in my research paper about babies, because they can do a whole lot more than people usually give them credit for. If you were interested in this, look at teen brain stuff, it will really help when they're older, i actually related to the majority of the discoveries they made.