Jul 31 2008
Language Intervention, how to talk to a Child
There is no set of rules of how to talk to a child that can even approach what you unconsciously know.
Brown is responding above to the question ‘How can a child’s learning of language be facilitated?’ In thinking of the ways in which teachers can help children communicate we have, like Brown, taken as our starting point the skills and strategies of the natural and spontaneous parent. A great deal of what we have to say is either an enhancement or clarification of what adults normally do. Continue Reading »