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Nursery World,
26 April 2007
The parroting approach to learning language has worked well for a four-year-old boy with severe learning disabilities, reported the Metro. Dylan Hargreaves' mother believes he started speaking the words 'Ta' and 'Bye' after hearing his family's pet macaw Barney say them. 'Every time I gave the bird something to say, Dylan started trying to say the same thing.
The parroting approach to learning language has worked well for a four-year-old boy with severe learning disabilities, reported the Metro. Dylan Hargreaves' mother believes he started speaking the words 'Ta' and 'Bye' after hearing his family's pet macaw Barney say them. 'Every...
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