Infant Conversational Skills

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Infants learn conversational skills through routinized activities, which includes game playing and daily routines (Owens, 012, p. 139). You mentioned some good language games that mothers and caregivers can play with infants that would help with their language development.
I believe that the more the parents and caregiver talks to the infant, the more conversational and social skills they will develop.
Do you think that infants will be able to develop these skills if their parents or caregiver does not interact with them? Why or why not?
Here is a YouTube video of the different infant developmental stages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FreXRAhTQs.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas in your post.

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