1.004 SOCIAL INTERACTION: Mutual Attention: Serve and return interactions
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Social interaction is the foundation for all communication. When we are teaching speech and language skills, we need to keep the social reasons for communicating at the center of our activities.
Harvard University’s Center for the Developing Child coined the term Serve and Return to name the back-and-forth interactions between infants and adults. This social interaction is responsible for building the connections between brain cells that develop memory and learning.
Read about Serve-and-Return and social interaction here.
Watch a video about Serve-and-Return.
Today’s activity: Be face-to-face with your child as you talk or make sounds.
Find more resources at www.TheInteractionCoach.com
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