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To: Joe NYC who wrote (138655)	4/16/2001 10:46:25 AM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 769667

"you must have been mentally far ahead of an average newborn or toddler, when you had these misgiving about your church'ss teaching about breastfeeding." I am not so certain. I believe that prespeech humans are much more capable of understanding language than people in general have any idea. In my role as baby sitter I have found that babies attempt to teach me their language at least as early as 6 months. It is however, rare that I am able to learn a significant amount of their speech before they figure out that it is easier to learn the speech of those around them than try to teach everybody else their own language. My one niece, Shannon, is so much like me that I picked up on her oral language quite well, and understood a great deal of her "prespeech" volcabulary by the time she was nine months old. LoriAnn, on the other hand, developed a nonvocal language that most of the members of our family were able to understand by the time she was nine months old. She started talking late (for our family), and it could be her proficiency at non-vocal communication that delayed her development of traditional speech.