Infant Communication Quotes

Light is actually the first word I said as a little baby.

Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.

Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

I did three DVD's for 'Baby Einstein,' teaching babies how to sign. It really helps a parent communicate because babies can't talk. But it has been proven that they can communicate using their hands to communicate. So sign language is a great tool in that way.

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.

A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

Of course everyone says they hate baby talk, but mine was not annoying.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Maybe my work isn't a cry for help. It may just be a baby's need to cry or a dog's need to bark. You know, barks that seem connected to phantom noises and cries that just come; though a baby's cries are usually efficient - something is bothering them. Anyway, I think giving money is a sign of love. If you truly want to help someone, a lot of times giving them money is the best thing you can do.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.