Did You Know?

Allergies?
Chronic allergies,ear infections, and upper respiratory infections all can interfere with hearing. They are the most common culprit behind delayed speech and poor pronounciation.

What's that?
By age three, strangers should be able to understand your child talking. If they can't, it might be time to talk to your child's doctor about a referral for a speech and language assesment.By age eight, children should pronounce all sounds of the english language correctly.

Baby Babble
Cooing seems to be innate. Even deaf infants coo. But if a baby can't hear their parent's response or feedback, instead of progressing to gurgling,bables,and gibberish, the coos will gradually disapear.

* 270 million children around the world have no health-care services?

* 640 million children do not have adequate shelter?

* 400 million children do not have access to safe water?

* one-fifth of children who begin primary school do not reach grade 5?

*There were 500,000 kids in preschool in 1964.Today there's over 5 million.

*36% of mothers in 1976 had four or kids. Now it's down to only 10% of moms.

*You'll spend as much as $14,000 on your child...before they are 2!

*63% of women would rather be poor and thin than rich and fat.

*49%of women say dining out would be the hardest money-spending habit to break. !