Correction of the TD

1- True. Infants can hear before they are born, and they develop a preference for the sound patterns of the language they hear prenatally.

2- True. The mother should interact with her child through series of gestures and vocalizations, as if she is in a real conversation. Consistent with this, Berk (1997:140) contends that: “the process by which young children‟s imitation develops is thought to start in infancy when initially the caregiver imitates the baby‟s sounds and gestures”. Veneziano (2000) adds that “this kind of speech forms the first manifestation of language addressed to the infants (LAI) where the adult‟s normal speech becomes a facilitated language in order to be easily decoded by the child”

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3- False. When children are learning to talk, adults are more likely to respond to the accuracy of what the child says rather than to correct the child‟s grammar. In this case, the adult would be more likely to say “yes, you went outside”. Allen & Cowdery (2014: 432) report that “to correct a child unnecessarily undermines the child‟s confidence. If children are to improve their language skills, they must keep talking children who fear they will be criticized each time they speak tend to speak less and less.”

4- False. Infants use many gestures before they can speak and continue to use them along with speech.

5- True. If they do not do so the child will be frustrated and thus lessen his language development.

6- False. Techniques such as these make the child passive. Children learn literacy skills much more effectively when you use techniques that are interactive and that actively involve the child in the process.