💡 There are so many playful ways to encourage babbling! Comment “BABBLE” and we’ll send you 8 easy tips to try today. 👋 Hi! 👩‍⚕️ We’re Ilana and Kellie—a speech-language pathologist and a CDA (and moms!) We’re here to help you connect, play, and nurture your little one’s communication skills from the very beginning. Curious what babbling really sounds like? Here are a few real-life examples 👶✨ Babbling isn’t just noise! It’s one of the biggest milestones in early speech and language developm

Here’s one of the most fascinating child development videos I’ve ever shared. As your baby learns language, they begin by approximating the examples you set. After a period of early experimentation with sound (including cries, coos and gurgles), infants begin babbling - making speech-like sounds (which often include components of conventional speech) that are - nonetheless - not yet conventionally meaningful. This babbling phase is a precursor to the use of formal words. And it happens in all la

Is your baby a babbler? If so, you’ve reached an important developmental milestone. Typical between 4-12 months of age, you can think of babbling as the “on ramp” to spoken language - a discovery phase during which your child progresses toward the production of more and more conventional speech. Babbling generally begins with single syllables like “da” or “ba,” before advancing to a more repetitive stage like the one shown in this beautiful video shared to IG by madisonballew1 (in which our hero

Language has its own special genres. And your toddler is working to master them all. Not long ago, I shared a fantastic video example of a toddler engaged in a pretend phone call. He took conversational turns, laughed at his imaginary partner’s joke, and knew to end the call with a goodbye and pressing the “end call” button on his toy telephone. At less than 2 years old, he had the phone call genre down pat. Here’s another amazing example (shared to IG by walking_faith_4u): the bedtime story. Wa