This letter writer’s 7-year-old constantly speaks in a “squeaky baby voice with bad grammar” that annoys the whole family.

You can also purchase them directly from the My Baby Can Talk site. Also check out fun resources on the site featuring detailed tutorials, background research and a video dictionary.

Talk to your baby bump often: In the womb your baby's hearing gets stimulated by around 20 weeks or so. That's from when you can talk to your baby and introduce her to the world of words and sounds.

Here's another thing for the list: developing your child's social skills by the way you talk. People used to think that social skills were something kids were born with, not taught.

Toward the end of lunch, Phoenix Ferragame, 17 months old, raised both hands in front of his chest and tapped his fingertips together. His mother smiled. "You want more? More chips?" Gina ...

John Berry / Staff photographerAnna Hsu, of Manlius, does the sign for "eat." You can teach your baby sign language to understand what she wants before she's old enough to tell you. In today's ...

Here’s what the research shows so far. Talking to your baby matters. When you speak with your baby, they are exposed to a rich tapestry of sounds and movements.

My mother wanted the girl to speak to her baby, because it would help build her child’s language skills. But the girl refused. “I’m not going to talk to my baby until my baby talks to me ...

Just because your baby can’t talk doesn’t mean you should sit in silence all day. The more you talk and express yourself, the easier it’ll be for your toddler to learn language at a younger age.

"Our phones are just going crazy," said Kathleen Waidhofer of Monterey, Calif., co-founder of My Baby Can Talk videos. "People will want to teach their baby to sign if they actually see a baby ...