#preverbal

Lois Greenfield     Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.     1983

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“[… Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.”

Don’t Just Read to Your Baby, Make Sure to Interact As Well #languagedevelopment

NEW YORK, January 8, 2016— Paying attention and responding to babbling while reading to a baby may be the key to language development, according to researchers at the University of Iowa (UI).

“A lot of research shows that book reading even to infants as young as six months of age is important to language outcomes,” said Julie Gros-Louis, assistant professor of psychology at the UI and…

Babies Are Preverbal, Not Idiots

Newborn babies are complex little people who see, hear, touch, communicate, receive information and, above all, remember.

Of course, we can readily see that loud, sharp or deep voices cause a newborn to jump but are you aware that a newborn will turn to look at a voice he remembers hearing in the womb?

It was still  amazing to watch my first grand-daughter turn towards her mom’s and dad’s voices…