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Helping Your Child to Acquire Language: How to be Explicit, Consistent and Redundant By : Natalia Likhtik The problem of how a child comes to know what words refer to what objects or actions is complicated by the fact that a single object or event has many parts and features which can be referred to in a great many ways. The key to helping your child to acquire language as soon as possible is to create persistent frames of references within his immediate environment. To do it you have to be explicit, consistent, and redundant. What should adoptive parents know about their children’s language-based school difficulties? Part 5. By : Boris Gindis, Ph.D. In the series of articles Dr. Gindis explains what happens with the language of adoptees from foreign countries when they arrive to the US and begin their life in American families. Dr. Gindis explains why language metamorphosis in internationally adopted children are often the reason for so many school issues, specific to these children only and what parents need to know to help their children to overcome these problems. This is part 5 of the series.