To continue our blog series this month celebrating Better Speech and Hearing Month, we will focus on our tiniest communicators, infants. Most parents would assume that speech and language skills can only be assessed or addressed after a child has begun speaking around the age of 1. However, there are many skills to be watching for well before a first word is spoken. Humans are pre-wired with the desire to communicate. We were literally born that way. Listed next are some general milestones to be looking for in your infant: Birth to 12-Month Milestones: • Making cooing sounds (birth–3 months) • Making speech-like babbling sounds, such as pa, ba, and mi (4–6 months) • Responding to changes in
May is "Better Speech and Hearing Month", which is a month dedicated to bringing awareness to communication disorders and the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology. At The Speech Spot, we would like to honor this month with a series of blog posts dedicated to "Communication Across a Lifespan", which is the American Speech-Language Hearing Associations (ASHA) theme for this year. We will provide information about communication and communication disorders in infancy, early childhood/toddler, school-age, and adulthood as well as other interesting facts about current research being done in the field, videos from ASHA directly, and much more. To kick us off, we would like to highlight
