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Model for parents how to talk to babies and children and respond to their attempts at language. Encourage them to do this.
Encourage parents to play with language with their children, for example, reciting rhymes and singing songs.
Encourage parents to make books, papers, and writing materials available and
suggest that children should use reading and writing activities in daily play.
Discuss with parents and children the importance of reading to and with children.
Provide understandable brochures and videos in their waiting rooms (in the native languages of their patients) encouraging literacy-oriented activities with children.