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Caregiving routines are wonderful opportunities to build communication – and what better framework is there than music?!

  In the short movie below, you’ll see:
  • An infant hears and a toddler models vocabulary about body parts
  • That infant receives that input by hearing the words and looking at the gestures
  • The song involves actions and movement of the body, which can be modeled or imitated
  • The whole family can be involved, and each person can reinforce the learning through PLAY

Does your baby love music?

Here at Learn With Less, we know as well as you do that music is a powerful tool to support development. In fact, we’ve based an entire developmental curriculum around that the belief that it’s one of the four major pillars we can use to support infant and toddler development.

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Ayelet Marinovich, MA, CCC-SLP
👋🏼 Hey there and happy Friday!

I’ll take this moment to introduce myself, & my work here at @learnwithless

I’m Ayelet (i-YELL-it) Marinovich, a pediatric speech-language pathologist, parent educator, imperfect mom of two, & founder and host of the Learn With Less® podcast.

Learn With Less® is a parent education company dedicated to helping educators & new parents/caregivers feel confident they can support & connect with babies & toddlers — without having to buy a single toy.

We do this by:
1️⃣ Helping parents & caregivers understand basic knowledge about early development, connect play to learning, use simple materials & natural, everyday interactions, and support/connect with other families.

2️⃣ Helping professionals working with infant/toddler families (eg, educators, therapists) create successful community-based parent education & parent support programming using the Learn With Less® curriculum.

Here are a few things I believe:

⭐️ Access to high quality information & support — in community - makes us all stronger. Our lives & our safety are interconnected.

⭐️ Play is for everyone, & does not require access to fancy, inaccessible toy subscriptions

⭐️ We need to confront the ways in which privilege is present both in the parenting world & in the world of education, working to understand the systems in place, & doing our part to dismantle them. Black Trans Neurodivergent Disabled Lives Matter.

Here at Learn With Less®, we strive to create inclusive, equitable resources that make everyone feel seen and heard.

Want to learn more about offering family-centered care in your community?

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Got questions? Send me a DM!
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We can support all areas of learning & development in babies and toddlers using the 4 pillars of @learnwithless 

❤️ PLAY
❤️ TALK
❤️ SING
❤️ MOVE

… without having to buy a single toy.

And we can encourage all types of communicative acts:
💡 Joint Attention
💡 Social Interaction
💡 Behavioral Regulation 

…. Witnessing young children communicating actually speaking a single word!

🎧 Listen to our latest podcast episode featuring speech-language pathologist @jessicaburchiel 

✨ What Gets In The Way of Recognizing ALL Communication Has Value

On the Learn With Less® podcast:
(Link in my bio) https://learnwithless.com/podcast/what-gets-in-the-way-communication/

And learn how to use the 4 pillars of Learn With Less® by downloading our FREE infant/toddler development blueprint here: https://learnwithless.com/blueprint

Got questions? Have a thought to share about our episode? Leave a comment! ⬇️

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It can be challenging to 
🐌 slow down, 
👀 to notice what a young child is doing, 
🫂 be in a practice of attuning oneself to them.

🎧This is a big part of what #speechlanguagepathologist 
@jessicaburchiel & I spoke about in our latest podcast episode,

“What Gets In The Way of Recognizing ALL Communication Has Value.”

😬The slowing down, having dedicated time being in a practice of noticing what a young child is interested in, is not easy - for parents, caregivers, & practitioners alike!

@learnwithless resources are all about giving tools to the adults in the room to make this easier.

We do this through the guise of our four pillars: 

💜 play, talk, sing, & move, 

Which can assist the adults in the room with simplifying the interactions, 

Allowing them to slow down, to attend, to acknowledge a child, to investigate, & to pay attention.

➡️ That is a major part of what myself & other Learn With Less® facilitators do: 

We provide that dynamic opportunity for caregivers to notice, and to do that work, of purposefully engaging.

Being intentional as a caregiver or practitioner… so that a child can know that that is valued here.

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