Talking To Children Matters

Infants have an incredible mind in that they have the ability to learn and master a language in a relatively quick matter of time. The elasticity of babies and children’s brains is remarkable. It has been quite astonishing to watch my eleven month old niece grow and learn as she studies the things that my family and I say and do. She understands a range of words and sentences even though she is not able to actually articulate them yet. Soon she will be going from a blabbering mumbo jumbo speaking baby to being able to annunciate clear, complex words and sentences in only a matter of years. Neuroscientists are now able to paint a picture of the transitional period of what happens in a baby’s brain during this learning process.

Deborah Fallows, the author, strives to show her readers that, while everyone does learn to talk, not conversing enough with children could negatively affect the way they learn language. She cites multiple sources, tells of her credentials, appeals to emotion, and ultimately creates an effective argument supporting her

The communication with your child starts way before the youngster can speak. From their cry, smile, and the responses they give you to help you understand his or her needs. Language developments have different stages that children pass through to assist them in the development of speech and languages. There are a plethora of factors which can inhabitants’ a child language development. However, these are amongst the top causes for language development such as a child’s inborn ability to learn language and the language the child hears.

Three practices that support the language development of all children is that of “communicating and Sharing” (Lally, 2006, p.32) in which a caregiver is observant of the infant and follows the infant's cues in that “Babies show us from the beginning that soothing words and lullabies can calm them.” (Lally, 2006, p.32) thus forming a bond of communicating what the infant's emotions are and sharing them in their reaction to a caregiver.

I am a firm believer in the idea that everything we learn, see, touch and experience can have a lasting effect on us. For my controversy paper I will be discussing how infants develop their language or communication skills from the way their parents talk to them. While talking to a baby who may not be able to talk yet or does not even seem to be responding to you may seem silly. But it actually has a lasting effect on their language development. Even from when they are so small something as simple as talking to them can make a difference in their lives. Parents need to talk to babies as soon as possible because it can make such a difference in their development. I strongly believe and my view is for the more interaction with infants. They need it to grow and develop into the best possible version of yourself. All though infants are usually known for not speaking, they do participate in communication in their own way. They do this hearing, gazing, babbling, looking and smiling through their auditory and visual senses.A newborn infant primary way of communication is by the turn of it head when hearing sounds. The voice of the child’s mother that they remember from the womb or the caregiver would get the most responsive communicational feedback.Which is why it is essential for parents to take time to communicate with their children even if their babies. This controversy is basically how the more parents speak to their infants it seems to correlate with how much vocabulary

Parental observation helped a great deal in compiling the information as it acted like a progress report where I could monitor how the child’s language developed over a short period of time. As this research was built on the cross-sectional design, parental observations were very useful. The need to get the subject accustomed to the observer and other problems that crop up were avoided by using the parent, a familiar person as the observer.

There are similarities when communication with children, young people and adults. For example; eye contact should be maintained, active listening should be demonstrated with both age groups. Responding positively to feedback that has been given, speak clearly to both age groups.

After the first couple of months, infants become more interactive with their surroundings. They are very curious and have the desire to get in touch with the world. In order to engage in such activity, they begin by utilizing their sense of touch by placing numerous objects in their mouth. In the upcoming months, infants start to use different senses such as hearing and sight to get in touch with their surroundings. Before they are even able to speak, their caregivers speak to them in differentiated speech and vocalizations as opposed to adults. The intonation and rhythm in the adult’s voice is usually different around young children, causing them to be able to get their attention. Over the years, speech language pathologists have conducted a large number of studies where it demonstrates children’s’ fascination with speech generated by humans. Levi, as summarized by the ASHA leader, conducted a study where the children successfully recited words after distinguishing the familiar and unfamiliar voices of the speakers.

The article “How do babies learn their mother tongue?”, written by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, discusses the process in which babies learn a language. The authors cover the process with analogies and examples starting with a fetus in a womb, and ending with a 18-month-old watching television.

With water it’s just a fun liquid. But mixing those 2 together equals a whole lot of fun. When this happens they can begin molding the sand into shapes or object’s altogether. When a child gets more involved in their activity they remember that activity the most. There were 702,000 victims of child abuse and neglect reported to child protective services (CPS) in 2014.The youngest children are the most vulnerable with about 27% of reported victims being under the age of three. PS reports may underestimate the true occurrence of abuse and neglect. A non-CPS study estimated that 1 in 4 children experience some form of child abuse or neglect in their lifetimes. About 1,580 children died from abuse or neglect in 2014.The total lifetime cost of child abuse and neglect is $124 billion each year. Studies show that one in four girls and one in eight boys are sexually abused before the age of 18, and that approximately one in 20 children are physically abused each year. Child sexual abuse is the deliberate exposure of a minor child to sexual activity that the child cannot comprehend or consent to. This means a child is forced or talked into sex or sexual activities by another person. This behavior includes acts such as inappropriate touching of a child's

This article from Scientific American Mind gives readers explanation as to why babies do not come out of the womb talking like adults. Also, the author discusses how babies learn to talk and the steps they take to achieve their highest language capacity. The article provides two main theories as an answer to the age-old question about baby language and how it becomes adult language. The mental hypothesis is simply that babies are not cognitively ready to speak like adults. Their brains have not made the necessary connections to form words, let alone form full sentences with proper fluency and syntax like

As we have seen, the wellbeing of children and young people is essential for their adequate development, by safeguarding it we ensure that they get the five outcomes of the Every Child Matters.

Infants move through stages that allow them to make increasing varieties of sounds such as cooing, babbling, laughing, and advanced babbling. Understanding infants sound production is very important because use sounds to communicate. Language is taught as conversation. In order to be developmentally appropriate for infants, the environment for infants, cognitive, language, and literacy development the caregiver need to have specific ways to talk. The caregiver need to talk a lot to the infants and use a wide vocabulary. When talking, give the infants choices and ask them about things. Interaction with infants is the basis for cognitive development. Infants need to interact with objects and people. Interacting with objects and people will help them explore and add on to their understanding of the world. To encourage words in older infants give then experiences and objects to label. When they point to objects they want, say the name of the object. Creating patterns and labeling the same way each time is the key factors in learning particular contexts.

The study solidified the theory that social interaction is key to a toddler developing his language. This study proved that children with mothers who talk and text frequently, or disengage from their children, are less likely to learn the new words. This disengagement distracts the toddler and thus interrupts the important cognitive processes occurring in the brain to map the new words. This study was effective because of the intention and concern in its design. The researchers did an amazing job explaining the material and taking great pains to control as many

From a baby 's first word to their first complete sentence, there 's a lot to debate with their language development. The average child has a vocabulary of up to six-thousand words by the time they turn five years old (Brighthubcom, 2016). Language development is one of the most critical roles for an educator in both early childhood and primary settings. It is this ability of language development that is particularly interesting in the nature vs nurture debate. In order for educators to provide effective communication, it is important that they have the knowledge and understanding of the four key concepts of language, such as phonological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic development and the underlying theoretical perspectives that explain the processes of language acquisition and development.