Children's communication skills : from birth to five years

Children's communication skills : from birth to five years / Belinda Buckley.

Includes information on attention, conversation, expressive language, grammar, literacy, narrative, objects, play, social interaction, sounds, speech vocabulary, words, etc.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buckley, Belinda, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Subjects:
Interpersonal communication in children.
Nonverbal communication in children.
Communication.
Preschool children.
Infants.
Language acquisition.
Misinformation.
infants.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Psycholinguistics.
Preschool children
Language acquisition
Infants
Communication
Interpersonal communication in children
Nonverbal communication in children
Aufmerksamkeit
Spiel
Sprachentwicklungsstörung
Spracherwerb
Kommunikative Kompetenz
Communicatieve vaardigheden.
Kinderen.
Interpersoonlijke communicatie.
Non-verbale communicatie.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Examples and case studies
  • Tables
  • Key skills
  • Warning signs
  • INTRODUCTION: HUMAN COMMUNICATION
  • Communication, language and speech
  • The multi-factorial nature of human communication
  • What do children need to develop communication, language and speech?
  • Further environmental influences
  • Summary of introduction
  • THE FIRST YEAR
  • Hearing, attention and listening
  • Towards early verbal understanding
  • Communication and expressive skills in the first year: why do babies communicate?
  • How babies communicate: looking, moving and gesturing
  • Making sounds in the first year
  • Summary of Chapter
  • THE SECOND YEAR
  • Attention and learning language
  • Play and symbolic understanding
  • Understanding meaning
  • Early verbal understanding
  • Communication and expressive skills in the second year: why do children communicate?
  • Using early words
  • Early speech
  • Summary of Chapter 2
  • THE THIRD YEAR
  • Attention control
  • Links between play and language
  • Conceptual, semantic and vocabulary development
  • Understanding words and sentences
  • Communication and expressive skills in the third year
  • Speech development
  • Summary of Chapter 3
  • THE FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS
  • Attention control
  • Links between play and language
  • Semantic and vocabulary development
  • Understanding words and sentences
  • Further developments in communication and expressive skills
  • Speech development
  • Emergent literacy skills
  • Summary of Chapter 4
  • LEARNING MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
  • Bilingualism
  • Features of bilingual speech and the patterns and stages of bilingual acquisition
  • Bilingualism, cognition and literacy evelopment
  • Environmental factors impacting on bilingual acquisition
  • Summary of Chapter 5
  • PROBLEMS DEVELOPING SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
  • The nature of communication difficulties
  • Environmental and internal factors contributing to communication difficulties
  • Summary of Chapter 6
  • WORKING WITH PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES
  • Which professionals?
  • Understanding parents of children with communication difficulties
  • Parent-professional relationships
  • Considerations for working with parents at different stages of their child's care
  • Summary of Chapter 7.

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