Communication with Infants and Toddlers

NY Times article entitled "From Birth, Engage Your Child with Talk." The article explores a modern phenomenon of mothers and other caregivers spending more time on computers, cell phones and blackberries than talking to their children. The article then reviews positive communication strategies that parents can use to facilitate language skill growth in their children. It also gives some specific tips on building language skills. Have you seen parents with their children, but not talking to their child? What kind of communication skills do you use with your children? How might different strategies impede or facilitate growth?