INFANT COMMUNICATION

Question 0

Cognitive Developments

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• 6 Months:they use toys to make noise.
• 11 months: recognizes own name when called
• 12 months:uses common objects appropriately

Question 1

DEVELOPMENT IN RELATED DOMAINS

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Infant development milestones in McLaughlin pp. 175-177 lecture notes only on exam.

Question 2

Cognitive developments

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• 1 month: demonstrates regard for caregivers face & near objects
• 3 Months: visually search for sound
• 4 months: Localizes sound sources

Question 3

Social Developments

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• 1 Month: establish eye contact with caregiver
• 3 Months:exhibits selective social smile
• 10 Months: gives toy on request
• 12 Months: exhibits emotions such as sympathy,jealousy,affection

Question 4

Motor developments

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• 2 months: achieves Visual focus
• 3months: reach for or grasps an object
• 5 months: sits up with slight support
• 7 months: crawls & pulls self to stand

Question 5

By one year of age …

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• Babies can point to what they want

- Sheehan(Stanford Child Neurology): if a child is not pointing by her first birthday, we suspect autism

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II.GENERAL PRECURSORS TO LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT**

-Ability to engage in reciprocal interactions,routines,and general exchanges with others

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• Ability to recognize and attend to environment change.

- Awareness that she can be an agent of change in her environment

Question 7

As an example of reciprocal interactions..

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Talking twin boys official video

Question 8

Harrison, L.J, Mcleod.(2010). Risk and protective factors associated with speech and language impairments.. Journal or Speech and Hearing Research,53, 508-5029

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• Examined 5,000 Australian preschoolers

- Found Best ch had better receptive vocabularies then bottled ch

Question 9

III.DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES OF INFANT SPEECH**

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Birth-4 weeks : vegetative sounds like burps,cries
1-4 Months : Cooing-Vowels that sound like /u/–often accomplish by /k/ and /g/ - type sounds (Velars). Cooing usually happens in pleasurable face-face interactions with caregivers.

Question 10

III. DEVELOPMENTAL MILES OF INFANT SPEECH**

continued

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• 4-6 Months: Marginal babbling. Baby produces vowels-like sounds will simple consonants in cv or vc form
• 6-8 months : Vocal Play : babies do:
• Reduplicated babblin/ma-ma-ma-ma
• Non-reduplicated or variegated /babbling/ /agabidamo/

Question 11

During Babbling

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• The most common sounds are the front and middle sounds

- By 1 Year of age, most American babies use / h,d,b,m,t,g,w,nk/

Question 12

*E 8-12 months-echolalia

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(not like in autism) This is the baby’s relatively immediate reproduction of speech heard in the immediate environment

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*9-12 months-jargon

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this consists of strings of syllables produced with stress and intonation that sound like real speech

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INFANT AND CAREGIVER COMMUNICATION:RESEARCH DESIGNS

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-In longitudinal research,observe same babies over extended period of time.

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in cross sectional research

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simultaneously, observe groups of babies who are different ages

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in single-subject experimental designs

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-get a baseline of baby’s behavior.
-E.g., they often might try to see how often a baby spontaneously
vocalize in a 10-min.time period.
-when no one does anything special
-Then they introduce a variable such as a musical toy, to see if the baby vocalizes more

Question 17

Prelinguistic Communication

Prelocutionary Stage (0-6 Months

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-Caregivers infer messages–impose communication significance on babies’ behaviors such as vocal sounds,cries,and smiles

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When babies cry

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• they is stimulation of laryngeal and oral functions
• crying alerts caregivers to baby’s needs
• babies begin to understand cause- effect relationships-they cry(cause),and there is an effect(someone comes to meet their needs)

Question 19

paul & Norbury, 2012

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• after 12 weeks of age, there should be a significant decrease in the amount of crying
• between 2-4 months of age,pleasure sounds like “mmmmmm” begin to emerge.

Question 20

there are 2 different kinds of smiles:

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reflexive smiles: result from internal physiological stimuli
they occur primarily during sleep
-social smile occur in responce to another person

Question 21

in terms of gaze patterns

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• very early in life,babies
• like things with sharp contrasts & things that move
• by the end of the second month, babies can maintain eye contact with there caregivers

Question 22

caregivers establish joint attention with their babies

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joint action:shared activity that provides the topic of the caregivers utterances as well as providing the focus of attention.
-joint reference: caregivers utterances & shared attention are focused
on object.

Question 23

caregivers also engage babies in turn taking activities

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Be careful babies will imitate everything

• turn taking: alternation of responses & pauses between participants in the activity.
• foundation of dialogue
• caregivers often play and such as patty cake ,peek-a-boo & so on

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thus in the Prelocutionary stage

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-Caregivers interpret the babies actions & vocalizations to interaction age basically beyond their controll

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illocutionary stage( 6-12 months)

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the baby’s behavior is consciously influencing other people to act on some subject or object

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HALLIDAY CLASSIFIED COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THIS STAGE:**

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Personal -the baby expresses to obtain a particular type of interaction(e.g being picked up)

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Interactional-baby is trying to establish

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• interactions with others
• (genetic-pay attention to me)
• Instrumental-baby wants someone to help her obtain an object

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babies often use

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• Phonetically consistent forms
• these are not attempts at real words
• they are reliably associated with certain situations
• For example when, when the family dog comes in,the baby may say “eebye”

Question 29

Emergent Literacy

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• Babies can be introduced to books!
• McLaughlin discuses reading at 5-6 months of age
• i begin on day one :-)

Question 30

books for babies should

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• have bright pictures
• be fairly short
• be indestructible! plastic is good.
• have simple pictures,esp.of common object
• maybe have to feel (e.g.types of animal fur.)

Question 31

VII. Cultural And Socioeconomic differences

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in some cultures (e.g. Japanese) mothers have physical contact with their babies & vocalize less
-American Mothers typically respond more babies pleasure sound,mothers form other cultures respond more to sound distresss

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Kung San caregivers in Botswanna are more likely to interact with baby

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when she is not focusing on an object

-if a baby is attending to an object,caregivers

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to gain their babies attention

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• Thai mothers use a falling pitch pattern

- American Mothers often use a rising intonation

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in some cultures

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Caregivers silent with infants believe that talking with infants is not important

• More focus on physical affection meeting the baby’s physical needs
• the baby may have much more interaction with siblings then with mother(e.G. in Samoan Culture)

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in terms of socioeconomics status

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• Low ses Mothers use More orders & Commands;
  Middle-SES Mothers ask more questions
  -Low -SES Parents often talk to their babies much less frequently
  -“Why should I talk to him? He can’t talk back to me yet!”
  -May also be too tired to do this.