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Children's communication skills : from birth to five years

Title
Children's communication skills : from birth to five years / Belinda Buckley.
Author
Buckley, Belinda, 1965-
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description
xxii, 255 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Includes information on attention, conversation, expressive language, grammar, literacy, narrative, objects, play, social interaction, sounds, speech vocabulary, words, etc.
Subject
  • Interpersonal communication in children
  • Nonverbal communication in children
  • Communication
  • Preschool children
  • Infants
  • Language acquisition
  • Misinformation
  • Communication
  • Child, Preschool
  • Communication Disorders
  • Infant
  • Language Development
  • infants
  • Preschool children
  • Language acquisition
  • Infants
  • Interpersonal communication in children
  • Nonverbal communication in children
  • Aufmerksamkeit
  • Spiel
  • Sprachentwicklungsstörung
  • Spracherwerb
  • Kommunikative Kompetenz
  • Communicatieve vaardigheden
  • Kinderen
  • Interpersoonlijke communicatie
  • Non-verbale communicatie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-246) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 0415259932
  • 9780415259934
  • 0415259940
  • 9780415259941
LCCN
  • 2002036931
  • 100311420
OCLC
  • ocm51009259
  • 51009259
  • SCSB-9505214
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library