There's some simple things that we can do to encourage language development. One of them is making sure right from the beginning to talk to your baby, tell them what's going on with their life, tell them real things that are happening. We don't have to say, "Oh, look, this is a ball and it's red." What they need to know is, "This is warm water and here's a yellow washcloth and I'm wiping your back with this." That's how they learn language. Because it's a meaningful way to hear it and understand it and it's important to them, they want to know what those things are that are happening. Another way is to let them know that their communication is being heard. So whenever they're making a sound, whenever they're crying, we tell them, "I hear you, I hear you're crying, I'm trying to figure out what you want." When they start to say words, rather than correcting them, accept what they say and just encourage what they say. So if a child sees a rabbit and they think it's a bear and they say, "That's a bear,” instead of saying, "No, no that's a rabbit,” we want to say, "That looks like a bear to you." Or, "You're looking at that bear. You're telling me about that bear." They'll learn the differences and all these things soon enough, but right now we just want to encourage them talking. If we went to another country, we were trying to speak French and we were saying some things wrong, the French probably wouldn't say, "No, it's this, it's that." After everything we said, if they did, we wouldn't want to speak anymore. So we want to encourage language by accepting it and adding on a little more with our sentences so, "Yes that's a ball, it's a big ball isn't it?"