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Author Buckley, Belinda, 1965-

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

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 255 pages) : illustrations
data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Summary Includes information on attention, conversation, expressive language, grammar, literacy, narrative, objects, play, social interaction, sounds, speech vocabulary, words, etc.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Interpersonal communication in children.
Interpersonal communication in children.
Nonverbal communication in children.
Nonverbal communication in children.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Buckley, Belinda, 1965- Children's communication skills. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 0415259932 (DLC) 2002036931 (OCoLC)51009259
ISBN 9781135260491 (electronic book)
1135260494 (electronic book)
9780203865750
0203865758
0415259932
9780415259934
0415259940
9780415259941
Standard No. 100311420