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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index.

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.

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

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