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“You just love to hear Mommy talk, don’t you?” Velma asked as newborn Jayson stared up at her. Can Jayson attend to his mother? Is Jayson interested in his mother’s speech? As described in Chapter 4, hearing emerges well before birth, and evidence suggests that newborns can recall sounds heard in the womb (Dirix, Nijhuis, Jongsma, & Hornstra, 2009). Developing the ability to use language is a critical step in infancy and toddlerhood; it has important implications for the child’s cognitive, social, and emotional development. Gaining the ability to use words to represent objects, experience, thoughts, and feelings permits children to think and to communicate with others in increasingly flexible and adaptive ways.