Do We Need to Put You in School to Teach You How to Talk?

If your ears and mind are healthy at birth, we can't even stop you from learning to talk. It's very hard not to babble back at a child what you heard them say. The way you sound to yourself inside your head is very different from what other people hear. So how useful is it to have somebody tell you, oh, here's what i heard you to say, right? And, oh, my god, it meant this to me. You said ball. Now, maybe i didn't mean to say ball, but if you then break out a ball and you're all excited, i get the sense that this object and what i just said and your reaction are

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