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Speak, sing, and read to children — it’s shaping their future communication skills! Did you know these three facts about early child development?! 💬 1: Serve and return” interactions — responsive, back-and-forth exchanges between a young child and a caring adult — play a key role in shaping brain architecture. 2: Naming what a young child is seeing, doing, or feeling helps make important language connections, even before they can talk or understand words. 3: By age 2, babies who are frequently talked to know around 300 more words than those who aren’t. #ChildDevelopment #EarlyCommunication #LanguageLearning (fb)