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Language Development

Language Development. Preschool Age Children. Receptive Language. The ability to understand language. (Can be non-verbal). Productive Language. Able to actually speak and use words meaningfully. Definitions:. Speech = Communication through words Linguistics =

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Language Development

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  1. LanguageDevelopment Preschool Age Children

  2. Receptive Language The ability to understand language. (Can be non-verbal)

  3. Productive Language Able to actually speak and use words meaningfully.

  4. Definitions: Speech = Communication through words Linguistics = Study of how people learn to speak

  5. 7 Stages forLearning to Speak:

  6. 1. Undifferentiated Crying: • 0-1 month old • Cries to get everything it needs: • food, sleep, diaper changed, etc.

  7. 2. Differentiated Crying: • 2 months old • Cries are different for each thing child wants http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPXsoZ_F0SA

  8. 3. Cooing • Begins at 3 months • Elongated vowels sounds • A, E, I, O, U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQoD1bCl9OA&feature=related

  9. 4. Babbling • 6 months • Putting together consonants and vowels to make simple words • Ma, Ma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPGekZreJLc&feature=related

  10. 1 year old 5. First Word: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaurzbTgm3k

  11. 6. Two word sentences: • 2 years old • Noun and verb sentences • Me eat • Go car

  12. 7. Multi-word sentences: • 3 years old • Putting together sentences • may or may not make sense • short sentences I draw picture of the sun today.

  13. Other Facts about Language • A child’s first word is said around their first birthday. • A 2 yr. old child has a vocabulary of about fifty words. • A child can understand many more words than they can actually speak.

  14. What Parents Can Do to Help: Development of Language in Children

  15. Helpful Hints: • Expose children to a rich language base-talk • Praise • Positive Feedback • Play-back or restating (say it over and over – repeating) • Elaborate

  16. More Helpful Hints: • Interactive-reading, ask open ended questions (who, why, when, where, how?) • Language tour guide • Grocery Store • Department Store • Zoo • Toy Store

  17. Helpful Hints (con’t): • Take children’s comments seriously • listen to them • Avoid baby talk and babbling • Correct their speech

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