Speech language communication and literacy development in children Flashcards
What is child development? 4 points
Changing through the span of childhood
- Growth by maturation (linked to biology, not controlled)
- Learning through experience (interactions with people affects actions and feelings)
- Cognitive development
How do you become an expert in child development? 5 points
Describe observation
Apply strategies to promote children’s development, keeping relevant to skill level
Explain cause and effects of why children grow and behave as they do, acknowledging complexity
Understanding interrelated systems
Holistic development and child as a whole person
What are the 6 inter-related systems within child development?
Motor sensory and physical development (gross and fine skills)
Sensory
Lang and comm development
Cognition
Emotional + personality
Social + morality
Define speech
Physical sounds made, intelligibility, fluency
Define expressive language
How language is used (verbal or written)
Define receptive language
Understanding and comprehension
Define communication
Information transmitted/received in a social context, giving words meaning
Define phonology
Study of the system of meaningful sounds (how they are organised and used)
What is phonological awareness?
Ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken language
Define semantics
Words used in combination for meaning
Very broad, children make + find meaning
Define grammar
Structure of language needed for constructing ambiguous sentences
Includes syntax and morphemes
Define pragmatics
Understanding and using language appropriately in different social contexts
Define syntax
How words + morphemes combine to form larger units (phrases/sentences)
What are the 2 components of speech?
Speech
Phonological awareness
What are the 7 components of language?
Vocabulary
Categories
Concepts
Phrases/sentences
Comprehension
Inference
Extended sentences
What are the 3 components of social communication?
Turn taking
Friendship skills
Conversation skills
What are the 2 different models of communication in children?
Content form and use
Means reasons and opportunuties
What is ‘content’ in the content form and use model?
Using the right words to convey a message
- concepts
- links
- sequencing
What is ‘form’ in the content form and use model?
Intelligibility, putting words together in a grammatical sentence
What is ‘use’ in the content form and use model?
making use of language for a purpose in context
- eg: greeting, debating
What is the means, reasons, and opportunities model?
Means: how we communicate
Reasons: why we communicate
Opportunities: where, when and with whom we communcate
What does the communication chain do?
Breaks down all of the steps involved in communicating and receiving a message
What are the 8 steps in the communication chain?
Receptive lang
1. Looking and interpreting non-verbal communication
2. Listening/hearing
3. Auditory memory
4. Understand words
5. Understand sentences
Expressive lang
6. Use of vocab
7. Use of grammatical sentences
8. Articulation
What are the 7 blocks of the speech pyramid?
What is Bloom’s model of intentionality?
Effort and engagement motivates language acquisition
What is Tomasello’s usage based approach?
Have inventory of constructions linked to pragmatic + semantic functions, which is communicated
Meaning is use- structure of language emerges from use
How do constructions in Tomasello’s usage-based approach vary?
Range from abstract + flexible, to concrete and inflexible
What does Tomasello say the slow process of construction is driven by?
Intention reading (pragmatics)
Pattern finding
What is Chapman’s interactionist approach?
Motor + cognitive + social learning = precursors to new linguistic forms
Acquisition of language leads to development in other spheres
- new meanings expressed by existing behaviours/ language
- new forms of communication emerge to express known meanings
What is Chomsky’s nativist approach?
Children uniquely preprogrammed to learn language, as have language acquisition device- can recognise structure + grammar
What are the 8 stages of Erikson’s psychosocial theory?
What happens at each stage of Erikson’s psychosocial theory?
Has a different psychosocial crisis of 2 conflicting forces
Unresolved challenges resurface as problems later
What does the trust vs mistrust stage (1) of the psychosocial theory look at?
Are basic needs (safety, comfort, care) met by the caregiver
What does the autonomy vs shame/doubt stage (2) of the psychosocial theory look at?
Do children have a secure base from which they can assert independence
What does the initiative vs guilt stage (3) of the psychosocial theory look at?
Are children encouraged to make appropriate choices, or dismissed as silly
What does the industry vs inferiority stage (4) of the psychosocial theory look at?
Are children praised, or ridiculed/punished
What does the identity vs role confusion stage (5) of the psychosocial theory look at?
Do teens develop identity, or have an identity crisis, in the turning point from childhood to adulthood
What does the intimacy vs isolation stage (6) of the psychosocial theory look at?
Are young adults ready for LT commitment to intimate + reciprocal relationships, if identity is established
What does the generativity vs stagnation stage (7) of the psychosocial theory look at?
Do adults contribute to society or are they self-centred
What does the integrity vs despair stage (8) of the psychosocial theory look at?
Do adults feel accomplished and successful, or unaccomplished and unproductive
What is Watson and Skinner’s behaviourist theory concerned with?
Directly observable and measurable aspects of human behaviour
All behaviour learned / unlearned
How the world shapes people
What is classical conditioning?
Learning when a NS becomes associated with a stimulus that naturally produces a behaviour
What is operant conditioning?
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Punishment
What is Bandura’s triadic reciprocal determinism?
Behaviour influences the person and environment, in turn affecting behaviour and each other
What is Bandura’s social cognitive theory?
Learning by observing and interacting with others
Encompasses attention, memory, and motivation in learning
When observing a model performing a behaviour and consequences, sequence of events is remembered, and guides subsequent behaviours
What does Piaget’s cognitive theory look at?
First to conduct systematic observation of children to study cognition
Genetic epistemology: study of origins and development of knowledge
What is adaption (Piaget)?
Building schemes via direct interaction with environment
assimilation - use current schemes to interpret world
accommodation - create/adapt schemes if it doesn’t match
What happens as children progress through Piaget’s stages of cognitive development?
Children demonstrate new intellectual abilities and increasingly complex understanding of the world
Can Piaget’s stages of cognitive development be skipped?
No, a precise sequence
But can exhibit behaviours of >1 stage at a time
What are the 4 stages proposed by Piaget in his cognitive theory, and the approximate ages at which they occur?
Sensorimotor: 0-2y
Preoperational: 2-7y
Concrete operational: 7-11y
Formal operational: 11+y
Describe the sensorimotor stage of development
Intelligence is practical
All interactions are sensory or motor
Constant experimentation and learning through trial and error
Develop object permanance
Describe the preoperational stage of development
Logic based on personal knowledge, not conventional knowledge
Egocentrism: unable to take perspective of others
Advances in mental representations: make-believe play, drawings, naming objects, symbols
Describe the concrete operational stage of development
Deals with abstract concepts
More organised thinking
Employs memory strategies
Understands conservation
Decentration
Increased awareness of hierarchies of classification
Spatial reasoning
Describe the formal operational stage of development
Systematic + logical reasoning -> formulate hypotheses (hypo-deductive reasoning)
Improved decision making
What is Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory?
Emphasis on rich social/cultural contexts, need interaction with adults/older peers to advance development
Language as a foundation for higher cognitive development
According to Vygotsky, how is language linked to profound changes in cognition?
Private speech / egocentric speech
- self-guidance during challenging tasks
- internalised as silent inner speech when older
What is the zone of proximal development (ZPD), by Vygotsky?
Difference between child’s existing abilities, and what they can learn under guidance
What is intersubjectivity, according to Vygotsky?
Process of 2 people who begin a task with different understandings, arriving at a shared understanding
What is scaffolding (Vygotsky)?
Adults guiding children through ZPD
Eventually withdraw support
What is guided participation (Vygotsky)?
Assisting children in activities
Why did Vygotsky believe about make-believe play?
Vital force for cognitive development
Influential ZPD as children advance by tryng out challenging skills (eg: social roles)
What is Case’s neo-Piagetian theory?
Changes within and between stages of development
Continuum of acquisition
Accounts for unevenness in development
What is Siegler’s model of strategy choice?
Highlights experimentation + selection of mental strategies
Accounts for diversity and changing nature of children’s thinking
What does Maslow’s humanistic theory look at?
Examines the whole person and their uniqueness
What does Maslow’s hierarchy of needs say?
People are motivated to meet needs, but some take precedence
Needs lower must be satisfied before needs higher up
What are the 5 needs in Maslow’s hierarchy?
Physiological needs
Safety needs
Social/love/belongingness needs
Esteem needs
Self-actualisation needs
What are the 3 extra stages in the revised hierarchy of needs?
Cognitive needs- knowledge + understanding, curiosity, purpose
Aesthetic needs- appreciation + search for beauty
Transcendence needs- motivated by values beyond personal self (eg: religion)
What is Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory?
Human development influenced by different types of environmental systems (contexts)
What are the 5 different systems in Brofenbrenner’s ecological theory?
Microsystem
Mesosystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
Chronosystem
What is the mesosystem (ecological theory)?
Relationships between environments
What is the microsystem (ecological theory)?
Immediate envrionemnt, direct social interactions
What is the exosystem (ecological theory)?
Indirect environments
What is the macrosystem (ecological theory)?
Social and cultural context
What is Gardener’s theory of multiple intelligences?
9 types of intelligence…
- Verbal/linguistic
- Logical/mathematical
- Visual/spatial
- Bodily/kinaesthetic
- Musical
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal
- Naturalistic
- Existential
What is the chronosystem (ecological theory)?
Transitions and shifts overtime
What is Bloom’s taxonomy?
Different levels of thinking
What is Dweck’s mindset theory?
Mindset: theory people hold about themselves
Fixed or growth
What are 2 other words for pre-linguistic development?
Pre-verbal
Pre-lexical
How does newborn feeding change?
Gradually changes from a reflexive to a learnt behaviour along a developmental continuum
Involves a complex interplay between motor + sensory + cognitive + social & emotional development, and mealtimes + feeding environment
Describe the communication development of newborns
- eye contact with caregivers
- facial gestures (imitation / spontaneous)
- recognises mothers voice and native language (from 26w in utero)
- can distinguish between human-language sounds
- quietens when picked up
Describe the sensory development of newborns
- using all of senses to explore
- hearing developed in womb (startle reflex to loud sounds)
- turns eyes to continuous sound, large + diffuse light source, moving objects
- near sighted, fascinated by human faces at arms length
Describe the motor development of newborns
- motor skills developed in utero (newborn reflexes) promotes formation of mother-infant dyad
What is an example of a newborn reflex?
Moro reflex
- head is dropped
- abduction of arms, hands open
Describe the play development of newborns
- likes high contrast patterns + shapes
- likes moving things
Describe the cognitive development of newborns
- perceptual skills developed in utero
Describe the social and emotional development of newborns
- relaxed + settled + happy as recognises caregiver
- enjoys skin-to-skin (stroking rubbing etc)
When are preterm babies born?
37 weeks or earlier (usually 40)
What are the challenges with preterm newborns?
Increases vulnerability to health threatening conditions
May need special care + attention
- SLT role in establishing feeding
Where are the countries worst-affected by preterm birth?
65% of all preterms in sub-Saharan Africa
Highest in Bangladesh
Also high in high-income countries (Greece, USA)