General Development

Question 1

What are some trends of typical development?

Answer 1

Proximal - Distal, Gross motor - Fine motor

Question 2

What are the four essential communication skills that come before language?

Answer 2

Turn taking, imitation, social routines, joint attention

Question 3

What are the four early communication intentions?

Answer 3

Attention seeking, Requesting, Greeting, Protesting/Rejecting

Question 4

What is pre-intentional communication?

Answer 4

Communication before 8 months where infants don’t know their behavior impacts their environment

Question 5

How do caregivers respond to pre-intentional communication?

Answer 5

As if they were intentional

Question 6

What is the purpose of pre-intentional communication?

Answer 6

To get needs met, and to Set the groundwork for interactive communication

Question 7

At what age does conversational turn taking typically begin?

Answer 7

Around 6 months

Question 8

At what age does joint attention typically develop?

Answer 8

4-6 months

Question 9

What are the characteristics of intentional communication?

Answer 9

Eye contact while gesturing and vocalizing, consistent gestures, three-point gaze, persistence if communication attempts are not noticed, modification of attempts to be noticed

Question 10

What are the vocalizations during the birth to 2 months stage?

Answer 10

Undifferentiated crying and vegetative sounds

Question 11

What are the language developments during 2 to 4 months?

Answer 11

Cooing and understanding gestures and intonation

Question 12

What are the language and sound developments during 4 to 6 months?

Answer 12

Vocal Play and early babbling, recognizing name and happy vs angry

Question 13

What are the vocalizations during the 4 to 6 months stage?

Answer 13

Experiments with sounds

Question 14

What is the purpose of babbling?

Answer 14

Exploring their articulators, Learning to produce the sounds they will later use in speaking, Learning to listen- gives them practice hearing their own voices

Question 15

What speech sounds predominate from 4-6 months?

Answer 15

Vowel sounds

Question 16

What can a baby do with their lip movement at 6-8 months?

Answer 16

Control lip movement

Question 17

What does reduplicative babbling refer to?

Answer 17

Repeating the same consonant-vowel syllable (e.g., ‘bababa’)

Question 18

What is a characteristic of a baby’s receptive language at age 6-8 months?

Answer 18

Listens selectively, vulnerable to distraction, attends to one sensory channel at a time, understands emotional tone of speech

Question 19

What are some characteristics of a baby’s expressive language at age 6-8 months?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What does the production of consonants suggest about a child’s speech development?

Answer 20

Increasing maturity in their control of speech mechanisms

Question 21

Where are the consonants most frequently produced by babies?

Answer 21

At the front of the mouth (because they can see it)

Question 22

What are the earliest developing sounds?

Answer 22

Stops and nasals

Question 23

What is non-reduplicative babbling?

Answer 23

Babbling that does not repeat syllables

Question 24

What are some characteristics of early language development?

Answer 24

Uses consistent gestures/vocalizations for one particular object, event, or situation

Question 25

Intelligibility of children comes with ____

Answer 25

Vowels

Question 26

What are some milestones in language development around 10-12 months?

Answer 26

Word approximations start (Jargon). Persistent intentional language, Uses inflection when asking questions.

Question 27

What are protowords?

Answer 27

Certain sound combinations that children use to assign meaning