
Exploring Early Speech and Language Development: Interview with Catherine Laing
Early Excellence Podcast
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The Relationship Between Learning to Talk and Learning to Walk
Even sitting affects language but walking around being able to um view the world from your own perspective is really linked to learning to talk. Children develop a whole new set of like world ideas and concepts that they need to learn to be able to express so it goes back to what we were saying just before doesn't it? The physical experience, you know bit like when we were saying about kind of the onomatopoeic words that the action of pretending to be a cow or a cat or a or a dog draws a child towards it in a way that a word without those things might not be as appealing.
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