We got a letter about Stanford's Center for Infant Studies, so we signed Penny up as a participant for their research about early language development. The first part of our participation involves a questionnaire called the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory, which catalogues words and gestures that Penny understands and/or says and gestures she uses. This was interesting for me to do. It made me realize that the words she knows have a lot to do with the books we read. It also reminded me not to use too many substitute baby words like "wee-wee" for stroller (because we couldn't count that as a word she says). They are also studying children who are learning two languages. It is unfortunate that we aren't teaching her Japanese or Vietnamese, but in our situation it would be too forced. She has learned a few words in Spanish at daycare (agua, leche, and besitos).
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whoa! we are going to participate in a UCB infant study this week! I wanted to participate in this language study at Mills College, but since we are fluent in the languages we are trying to teach Jax, we were ineligible.
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