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An Imitation Deficit

Posted on October 10, 2008

When he wants juice, hold the cup in front of him and say joo and he will try to say something like that and keep on doing it, and then when he can say joo and he wants the juice, hold the cup and say, juice and he will try to say it and then he will say it closer and closer. That s what a pediatrician in the Saint Paul Children s Hospital told me when almost 10 years ago. Charlie was a toddler and not yet talking; the pediatrician nodded about my concerns but told me to give the joo/juice thing a try and one day, Charlie would talk.In the short run, it seemed ...

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