10 important strategies for language comprehension
10 Developmental Strategies to Help Your Child Understand Language Look at what the child is looking at AND look at his face so you can tune into his emotional state. Remember that the meaning of the words is not in the thing,...
The basics of language development
Human language is not only a learned behavior, but consists of complex social communication about emotional-mental states, thoughts and ideas using symbols and cultural meanings. 1. divided attention When a...
Showing is the first sentence of a child
Joint Attention Joint attention is the process of sharing the experience of observing an object or event by following the gaze or pointing gestures of another. It is the mental progression from a two-way to a...
The gestures of the child are what he wants to say
Gestural communication Long before a child learns to speak, that is, at least in the first 15 months, he communicates through GESTURES: with the hands, fingers, pointing, giving, handing, pushing away, ...BODY LANGUAGE: he moves his foot to say:...
