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Show r This Week )TlDjQLLiD:ii:f WHO'S DO I MO All THE MUlNCf Lets go, toys the mynah bird. Author Liebers son Jonathan cant answer back just yet SCIENCE Will baby talk quicker if you pick him up every lime he cries? Science turns to the mynah bird for the answer. Heres the latest on a momentous experiment The date of arrival of the modern babys first word seems to have become almost as important as the date of his birth. Its sad to report says Dr. Sydney Cohlan, Attending Pediatrician at University Hospital, New York University Medical Center, "that the onset of By LESLIE LtEBER This Weeks Roving Editor KENT, OMO Ever since mankind was blessed with the golden gift of speech, mothers and fathers have awaited the first words of their own babies with eager anticipation and greeted them with cheers. And it remains one of the unsolved riddles of pedi-- . a tries why some tots begin to verbalize intelligibly around their first birthday, while others flounder in a sea of gibberish and gesticulation until the - ripe old age of three. which uses talking An amazing experiment is now infants human mynah birds instead of State University. being conducted at Ohios Kent It may. revolutionize all' previous theories as to when baby can and should start talking. one of the first speech has now become a race status symbols in an American babys life. No matter how often we remind parents that some geniuses dont say a word until theyre past three, the myth persists that precocious speech is a sure will sign of brilliance and that the probably end up as mental peewees. Unfortunately the mother feels guilty and personally responsible if her offspring doesnt stop gurgling and start talking at an early age. Now comes word that parents may indeed be but in a influencing their childs language speed Kent The State never suspected. way they the mothers that its response to jstudy may prove b a babys crying during his days that of onset or the hastens, delays, speech. . - late-come- rs cradle-and-cri- Dont let baby bawl rtoftsson jostm h. quossiioht and one of his star subjects after a recoding session Professor Joseph H. Grosslight, head of the Kent State Psychology Department, is testing the theory that the mother who rushes to pick up and coddle her youngster every time it cries is actually encouraging early vocalization, because picking it up rewards the baby for making sounds. The baby who is rewarded for bawling realizes that making noise pays dividends. So he puts on a "crash co ttimsod m pago 7 program to cross the next 5 |
