"Your toddler's baby talk is cute, but are you stunting her development by repeating it back?" (Moyer, 2016)
Listening to those little mistakes that are oh-so-cute, we can sometimes find ourselves saying the same mistakes when responding - or maybe even in our own language to encourage the errors simply for their sweetness. But when is it a disservice to model these errors in our language?
Dianne Paul, director of clinical issues in speech-language pathology at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, says it is not bad for parents to mimic the mistake's of toddlers as long as they don't do it all the time.
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