Octopus, dolphin, shark...Babies learn the names of different kinds of fish from a Clyde Childcare Center mom. Moms know it doesn't take...

After dinner, twenty moms gathered with their babies to practice their most important role as first teacher of language. Knowing that a...

Home visitors at Clyde Childcare Center in Cicero, IL hold copies of The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk? a book they tested...

Tammy Steele, Ana Perez and Bina Habbi on September 14, 2018, first gathering of home visitors, moms, and babies at Clyde Childcare...

Tammy Steele, author of The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk? mom and her child at opening event at Clyde Childcare Center in...

Mom and her two children color the paper school bus yellow.

Clyde Childcare Center moms teach vocabulary to their toddlers using stickers and conversation starter from The Gift of Words: How Do...

Our book, The Gift of Words: How Do Children Learn to Talk? went to the Hyde Park Children’s Book Fair on Sunday, September 16, 2018....

Carter tells his mother what he remembers about the Mardi Gras parade -- beads, horses, drums, trombones and beads.

Sometimes a baby doesn’t need words to communicate.