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About us • About Naturally Baby • The Natural Development Approach™(NDA)
Definition
The Natural Development Approach is a guide for facilitating communication development following the natural and expected progression of learning and for promoting healthy interactions between parent and child in the first five years of life.
List of key components
- empowerment of both parent and child
- joy, fun, and enthusiasm in learning
- natural progression of communication development
- developmentally appropriate learning
- functional and purposeful learning
- sharing and connected relationships
- understanding and respecting the child’s perspective
- speech and language stimulation strategies
- nurturing the child’s freedom of self, expression, and play
- highly effective tools
- take home ideas
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines what we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."
Albert Einstein
"We are "miseducating" young children by teaching them the wrong things at the wrong time for no purpose."
David Elkind, The Hurried Child
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