Besides helping motivate motor skills, who is in the babies' environment also helps with communication skills, parents should communicate with their infants using different tones of voice and sentence structures as well as using eye contact starting from birth. ... Adults tend to speak to babies in what is called infant-directed speech or "baby talk" and this form of communication is made up of short sentences with high-pitched, exaggerated expressions, clear pronunciation, distinct pauses between sentences, clear gestures to support verbal meaning (including sign language), an...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She goes on to start work on her book, while he resumes reading proofs in the printing room. ... She was "banished" to the country in order to recuperate and it is because of this that she feels depressed and isolated. ... Leonard realises he has to agree to this because if he doesn't, he will lose his wife. ... She notes that "because she is pregnant, she is allowed these lapses." ... She forces herself to do things, mainly because she does not want to upset her family. ...

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• Grade Level: High School