General Development Flashcards
What are some trends of typical development?
Proximal - Distal, Gross motor - Fine motor
What are the four essential communication skills that come before language?
Turn taking, imitation, social routines, joint attention
What are the four early communication intentions?
Attention seeking, Requesting, Greeting, Protesting/Rejecting
What is pre-intentional communication?
Communication before 8 months where infants don’t know their behavior impacts their environment
How do caregivers respond to pre-intentional communication?
As if they were intentional
What is the purpose of pre-intentional communication?
To get needs met, and to Set the groundwork for interactive communication
At what age does conversational turn taking typically begin?
Around 6 months
At what age does joint attention typically develop?
4-6 months
What are the characteristics of intentional communication?
Eye contact while gesturing and vocalizing, consistent gestures, three-point gaze, persistence if communication attempts are not noticed, modification of attempts to be noticed
What are the vocalizations during the birth to 2 months stage?
Undifferentiated crying and vegetative sounds
What are the language developments during 2 to 4 months?
Cooing and understanding gestures and intonation
What are the language and sound developments during 4 to 6 months?
Vocal Play and early babbling, recognizing name and happy vs angry
What are the vocalizations during the 4 to 6 months stage?
Experiments with sounds
What is the purpose of babbling?
Exploring their articulators, Learning to produce the sounds they will later use in speaking, Learning to listen- gives them practice hearing their own voices
What speech sounds predominate from 4-6 months?
Vowel sounds
What can a baby do with their lip movement at 6-8 months?
Control lip movement
What does reduplicative babbling refer to?
Repeating the same consonant-vowel syllable (e.g., ‘bababa’)
What is a characteristic of a baby’s receptive language at age 6-8 months?
Listens selectively, vulnerable to distraction, attends to one sensory channel at a time, understands emotional tone of speech
What are some characteristics of a baby’s expressive language at age 6-8 months?
Engaged in social routines, imitates gesture and tonal quality of adult speech, fills turn in joint action/social routines, shows joint attention/reference, uses early gestures like pointing and showing
What does the production of consonants suggest about a child’s speech development?
Increasing maturity in their control of speech mechanisms
Where are the consonants most frequently produced by babies?
At the front of the mouth (because they can see it)
What are the earliest developing sounds?
Stops and nasals
What is non-reduplicative babbling?
Babbling that does not repeat syllables
What are some characteristics of early language development?
Uses consistent gestures/vocalizations for one particular object, event, or situation
Intelligibility of children comes with ____
Vowels
What are some milestones in language development around 10-12 months?
Word approximations start (Jargon). Persistent intentional language, Uses inflection when asking questions.
What are protowords?
Certain sound combinations that children use to assign meaning
