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• Modeling Language for Speech Development
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• Investigating Idioglossia
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  How to Spend Quality Time with Your Child
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• Barbara Underhill
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  Experts Reveal the Truth About Late Walkers
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  Relocating With Young Ones Requires Extra Care
• Cross-Cultural Adoption
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• Toddler's and Mental Health
  When Should You Worry About Your Toddler's Mental Health?
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  Children Who Speak Their Minds
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  Take Time for Each Other Before Baby Arrives
• Today and Always
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• Elise and Evan Macmillan
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• When a Friend Moves Away
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• No Butts About It
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• Alexander Julian
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• The Baby Game
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  Symptoms and Treatment of Ear Infections
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  Is There Such Thing as an Easy Labor?
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• In Search of Sex Ed
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• Fighting the Influence
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  Can Tunes Reduce Pregnancy-related Stress?
• The Urge to Compare Milestones
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• The Teenage Brain
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  Nurturing Your Multiples' Individual Personalities
• A Good Investment
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  Dealing with a Breakup While Expecting
• Welcome Home, Preemie
  Bringing Your Preemie Home from the Hospital
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  Adopting a Baby of Different Nationality
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  Get Your Child Reading This Summer
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  Natural Ideas for a Healthful Season of Giving
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• No More Periods
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• For the Children
  Advocating for Your Child with Learning Disabilities
• Stranger in My House
  When Your Teen Doesn't Act Like Your Teen Anymore
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• Where There's a Will...
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• Lights, Camera, Action!
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  Introducing Milk to Your Baby
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• Far From the Home I Love
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  A Guide to Internet Acronyms
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• What should I do if I suspect one of my twins has a language delay?
• What is idioglossia, or "twin language"?
• My son is 10 years old and has a hard time getting out what he wants to say. How can I help him?
• My almost 2-year-old only says a few words, but understands everything we tell her in Hindi or English. Her pediatrician says it's a speech delay. What should I do?
• Does premature birth affect speech development?
• My 2-year-old toddler communicates in many ways, but he is not talking. Should I be concerned?
• My niece may need speech therapy. Who can I contact to get this help for her?
• My 3-year-old is hard to understand and sometimes uses the wrong word. For example, he says "my" instead of "I." Should I be concerned?
• Can siblings, especially twins, develop their own language that only they can understand?
• My child has cerebral palsy. What will a speech language pathologist do for her?

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• Where can I get help for a 4-year-old with speech problems?
• How does a speech pathologist work with infants with Down syndrome?
• Other people have trouble understanding my 2-year-old. Should I be concerned?
• My 2-year-old will only eat pureed foods and is not speaking very much at all. Should I have him evaluated?
• My 4-year-old son had tubes in his ears and does not pronounce some of his letters well. How can I help him?
• Is there a speech development problem if twin boys (28 months old) are not speaking except in one- and two-word phrases? Is lack of parental involvement to blame?
• What should I do about my child's lisp?
• A boy in my class stutters, and this is making it hard for him to learn his letters and their sounds. What should I do?
• Why do some twins have trouble developing sounds or words?
• My 2-year-old nephew does not say more than 10 words. What could be the problem?
• How can I keep my son, who has a cleft palate, on the right track in regards to speech?
• When my 4-year-old son wants to speak, he has to stomp his feet on the floor for a word to come out. I've been told it will go away in time. Is this true?
• My 4-year-old grandson is having trouble pronouncing "c" and sometimes "k." What should I do?
• What should you do if you suspect your child has Central Auditory Processing Disorder?
• We are considering adopting a child with severe language delay from another country. Will this affect how he learns English?
• Is it normal for a twin to misuse pronouns at age 4?
• How can I help twin toddlers who refuse to speak?
• My 3-year-old began to stutter after her dad's national guard unit was activated. What should I do?
• Do TV shows like Teletubbies have an influence on a preschooler's language?
• What types of understanding and communication skills should an almost 3-year-old have?
• My 4-year-old stutters when saying even the simplest words. Will he outgrow this?
• What are the warning signs that my baby may have a developmental delay?

• I try not compare my 3-year-old to other kids, but he seems really behind in terms of speech. What should I do?

• I can understand my 4-year-old, but no one else can. What activities can I do to improve his speech?
• My son is 22 months old and says only two words. He has no interest in attempting any other language sounds and never mimics any words/phrases we use. Any advice?
• Is it normal for almost 4-year-old twins to constantly misuse pronouns or be hard to understand?
• Is it normal for my 31-month-old twin grandson to rarely talk, while his twin talks a lot?
• Should a 4-year-old be tested if people cannot understand him?
• I am teaching my 3-year-old Swedish, German and English all at once. Is this OK?
• My 3-year-old twins, born at 30 weeks gestation, are only saying two to three words joined together, most not understood by other people. They have just started S&L therapy. When will they start talking properly?
• If we confirm that my daughter has hearing loss, will she ever be able to speak clearly?
• My toddler uses gestures mostly to communicate. For example, he'll point if he wants his juice. How can I get him to use his words?
• I have a 7-year-old son who spoke more at 18 months than he does now. Is he autistic?
• My 7-year-old still talks with a slight lisp. Should I consider speech therapy?
• My 2-year-old son is very withdrawn from people. He will only speak to his father, one sister and me, and he is also struggling with an eating disorder. What should I do?
• How can I help my 3-year-old son talk more to me?
• Can play help develop speech and language skills?
• Does raising bilingual toddlers delay their speech?
• How does language develop from 4 months to 6 months of age?
• Would a non-native English-speaking nanny delay language development in my 2-year-old triplets?
• When should you start speech therapy for a 3-year-old who occasionally says "w" instead of "r" and who has a slight lisp?
• My 2-year-old has a very long, flexible tongue. Should I be concerned?
• My 20-month-old is from a three-language household. Any advice?
• When should we be concerned that my son is not talking? He is 20 months old.
• Should parents speak "baby talk" to their preschoolers?
• My son is almost 5 years old , but can’t speak in full sentences. He’s been diagnosed with DVD. What else could be wrong?
• My son is almost 5 years old , but canŴ speak in full sentences. Heų been diagnosed with DVD. What else could be wrong?
• What is a lisp?
• My 2 1/2-year-old was speaking so well and advanced for his age. In the past week he has really started stuttering and at the same time batting his eyes and doing odd neck jerking. What could be causing this?
• My daughter's pediatrician is fixated on my daughter's lack of speech and believes it's directly related to her lack of eating nutritionally. Should I be concerned?
• How does language develop from 7 months to 12 months of age?
• My toddler is not as talkative as the other children he is around that are the same age. Why?
• My daughter is lisping after a mouth injury. When can we expect her speech to return to normal? Should we get her help?
• How can I increase "talking time" with my toddler to work on her language skills?
• At what level should my 20-month-old be at in regards to speech and language skills?
• What is "modeling language"?
• Is it true that learning a foreign language at the preschool and toddler age is easier than for a middle school child?
• Sometimes my toddler will substitute or omit a word when he's talking. Is this normal?
• My 3-year-old grandson does not pronounce S, C, SH, CH, L, R and G sounds clearly. Are there things we can do to help him?
• My four-year-old has been in speech therapy for almosta year.He has improved a lot, but still can't put more thantwo words together. Any advice?
• At what level should my 2-year-old be at in regards to speech and language skills?
• My 2-year-old has started repeating words. Should I worry?
• Can the use of sippy cups cause delays in speech development?
• How does language develop from birth to 3 months of age?
• My 3-year-old son only says a few words. What should we do?
• My 4-year-old has trouble with words beginning with "S." Is this normal?
• My 10-month-old's babbles are starting to sound more like actual letters now. What letter sounds are generally a baby's first?
• My toddler doesn't seem interested in sitting and reading books, just play, play and more play. How can I work on speech and language skills if he won't sit still for reading time?
• My 18-month-old nephew never utters a sound. Should I be concerned?
• What are the early warning signs of dyslexia?
• What can I do to help my twins' language develop?
• How do I model language for my toddler?
• Is my 3-year-old just intimidated at school, or does he need to see a speech pathologist?
• My 3 and a half-year-old frequently refers to himself in the third person. Should I be concerned?
• My four-year-old has a slight stutter. Should Iworry?
• My 20-month-old son isn't talking yet, not even "ma ma" or "da da." At what point do I have him evaluated?
• When should my daughter start to talk?
• When should my daughter start to talk?
• Where is a good place to find videotapes, CDs, etc., for teaching my child different languages?
• My older daughter tends to talk for younger sister. Could this hinder her speech skills?
• At what level should my 13-month-old be at in regards to speech and language skills?
• Could my 3-year-old's picking eating habits and drooling be related to his speech delays?
• I have 4-month-old twin girls. It seems that when we are talking to them by their name, they don't respond to it. Sometimes they both look. When do they realize their own name?
• My daughter is about to start kindergarten. She has trouble with the letter "r" and a slight lisp. What should I do?
• My 34-month-old daughter speaks only Portuguese, but we are moving to California soon, so I want her to learn English. Will she remember what she already knows in Portuguese?
• What are the speech milestones for 24- to 36-month-olds?
• My son is 17 months old and his vocabulary consists of no more than five words. He gets mad and throws fits because he wants to communicate, but will refuse to learn if I try to teach him. Should I be concerned?
• What language skills will my 2-year-old start to develop over this next year?
• My daughter is about to start kindergarten, but has trouble being understood by people when she talks. What can I do to help her?
• My 4 year-old son has been diagnosed with PDD-NOS. Should we be concerned?
• My twins are 4 months old. Do I need to worry about teaching them language or does this just naturally take its course?
• My 3-year-old echoes what I say to her rather than coming upwith original thoughts. Should I be concerned?
• What is Central Auditory Processing Disorder?
• Can a sippy cup cause a lisp?
• Does my 6-month-old understand what I am saying to her?
• What toys are good for encouraging children to talk and work on language skills?

• My 4-year-old is in speech therapy, but we have lost our insurance. What should I do?

• Does my baby get anything out of games like "Itsy Bitsy Spider," or is it purely for entertainment?
• How can I model language for my toddler using "self-talk"?
• We just transitioned our 3-year-old, who spoke mostly a foreign language, into an English-speaking preschool and are concerned because she is not talking to her teachers or peers. What should we do?
• What can parents do to enrich a child's language skills?
• A friend of mine told me I need to add words to my child's sentences. Why, and how do you do this?

• Do boys really talk later than girls?

• My 2-year-old talked fine, then suddenly began to stutter. Should I be concerned?
• I can't get my 5-year-old to stop swearing. What can I do?
• Is it premature to diagnose a 3-year-old with ADHD?
• How can I provide a rich language environment for my 1-year-old?
• My husband thinks that our 18-month-old daughter should be verbally asking for what she wants. She will point and make sounds at the things that she wants. Can you help?
• Why does my daughter answer a question with "I don't know'?
• My 2-year-old twin girls only say a very few words and talk to each other all the time, but no one else can understand them. Do you have any suggestions or words of wisdom?
• Every other word out of my daughter's mouth seems to be "like." It drives me nuts! What can I do about it?
• My 33-month-old says "me" instead of "I." Is this normal?
• What is the school's role when a child is diagnosed with Central Auditory Processing Disorder?
• My daughter imitates her teacher who has a frontal lisp. Can this affect her speech?
• How can I encourage my twin toddlers to be bilingual?
• Do children learn through play?
• How can I ensure the safety of my children when traveling abroad?
• I know play can help develop all sorts of skills, including language. What is the best time to play with a child?
• Why is pat-a-cake the game parents always play with their baby? How do you know a game is a good one to play?
• How can I model language for my toddler using "parallel talk"?
• When will my baby start using gestures?
• Should I take a class with my baby?
• I have a newborn, and am curious about language development. When does it start?
• I've heard the term "expanding an utterance" in regards to helping my toddler develop language skills. What does this mean?
• My baby loves books. Are books at this age just for entertainment, and why does she want the same book read over and over again?
• When it comes to speech issues, is there really a second, third or fourth child syndrome?
• Could stuttering be a sign of a neurological problem?
• Why does my toddler sometimes leave out certain sounds when saying a word?
• My 2-year-old son drools constantly, but doesn't have a speech delay. Should I be concerned?
• My 5-year-old son has been diagnosed as being hyposensitive. Is Ritalin effective for hyposensitive kids?
• My 5-year-old has no interaction with her friends or teachers. Should I be concerned?
• When I picked up the phone, I heard a boy using extreme, sexually-related profanity while talking to my 12-year-old stepdaughter. Should I have confronted the boy instead of hanging up?
• How can I stay close with my daughter as she enters puberty?
• What are the signs and symptoms of Central Auditory Processing Disorder?
• What causes a lisp?
• I think my child has a speech disability. What can cause this? I'm worried it's because of something I did during my pregnancy.
• My five-year-old is having trouble pronouncing "th's."What do you suggest?
• How can I encourage my 20-month-old son to communicate more?
• I know I'm supposed to talk, talk, talk to my toddler to help her develop her language skills. What are some ways I can do this?
• My 3-year-old, who has advanced language skills, has decided to talk like a baby. Besides telling him to talk like a big boy, what can I do?
• My son says "um" a lot when talking. Any tips on getting him to stop?
• My 25-month-old daughter is very aggressive with other children. What should I do?
• How can I help my 4-year-old twins, who are very attached to me, have a great experience at preschool?
• How can I help my 3-year-old understand the concept of "why" questions?
• I overheard my son and his friends using very derogatory terms to describe certain girls. Should I talk to him about it?
• How do those adorable babbles turn into actual words and language?
• My 3-year-old stutters when saying "I" and "you." Should I be concerned?
• What are some of the advantages of putting a child in daycare?
• I am the single father of 3-year-old twins (boy and girl). Their mother died when they were a few months old, and they have recently started asking why they don't have a mother like other children. How should I approach telling them without hurting them emotionally?
• When should I start reading to my twins?
• My 2-year-old twin boys, who were born premature, are repeating tons of words and they say them clearly. However, they are not putting two words together. Should I have them evaluated?
• My baby is not here yet, but I am already anticipating hearing him say "da da." At what age can I expect this?
• My daughter appears to have no confidence in her statements. Is there anything I can do to help her?
• My 17-month-old is addicted to her thumb, and it's already affecting her teeth. How can I stop this habit?
• Why doesn't my daughter appreciate what she has, instead of complaining about what she doesn't have?
• Is it possible to predict gender with a urine test?
• My son is 5 years old. He has PDD and has just entered mainstream school. He makes noises, which are very loud and become very irritating. He says, "Dad, dad" and just keeps saying it loud and will not stop, no matter how many time outs we put him in. What can we do to help him stop?
• Is it possible to predict gender with a urine test?
• Are there ways to encourage more than one or two word replies from my preschooler?
• A child in my preschool class will not talk. Any advice?
• Are there ways to encourage more than oneor two word replies from my preschooler?
• What are the symptoms of lead exposure?
• My 10-week-old still isn't smiling much. In fact, she's pretty non-interested in social interaction. Should I be concerned?
• I have two girls with hearing loss. Is there any way to heal it?
• I've been told my daughter uses too many "filler words." What does this mean?
• Is 10 months too early to discipline twins when they are into things that I don't want them in?
• How can I get my 13-year-old to stop drinking alcohol and smoking?
• My 11-month-old has started hitting. What should I do?
• My 4-year-old is getting in trouble at preschool for calling the girls his "girlfriends" and holding their hands. Help!
• My nephew screams when he's given a bath.Do you have any suggestions on making bathtime more pleasant?
• I am attempting to relactate in order to feed my 7-week-old son. He was tongue-tied, but I found a doctor willing to snip his tongue. How long should I wait to see if my supply comes back?
• My 13-year-old daughter is almost impossible to live with. Please tell me how to handle a child like this.
• We are adopting our nephew who is a shaken baby survivor. Do you have any suggestions for potty-training?
• How do I talk to my 9-year-old about Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy?
• How can I accept my 12-year-old stepdaughter after she has made horrible, untruthful accusations?
• What kind of support and information do teenagers need to breastfeed successfully?