Speech language communication and literacy development in children

Question 1

What is child development? 4 points

Answer 1

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

Question 2

How do you become an expert in child development? 5 points

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What are the 6 inter-related systems within child development?

Answer 3

Motor sensory and physical development (gross and fine skills)
Sensory
Lang and comm development
Cognition
Emotional + personality
Social + morality

Question 4

Define speech

Answer 4

Physical sounds made, intelligibility, fluency

Question 5

Define expressive language

Answer 5

How language is used (verbal or written)

Question 6

Define receptive language

Answer 6

Understanding and comprehension

Question 7

Define communication

Answer 7

Information transmitted/received in a social context, giving words meaning

Question 8

Define phonology

Answer 8

Study of the system of meaningful sounds (how they are organised and used)

Question 9

What is phonological awareness?

Answer 9

Ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken language

Question 10

Define semantics

Answer 10

Words used in combination for meaning
Very broad, children make + find meaning

Question 11

Define grammar

Answer 11

Structure of language needed for constructing ambiguous sentences
Includes syntax and morphemes

Question 12

Define pragmatics

Answer 12

Understanding and using language appropriately in different social contexts

Question 13

Define syntax

Answer 13

How words + morphemes combine to form larger units (phrases/sentences)

Question 14

What are the 2 components of speech?

Answer 14

Speech
Phonological awareness

Question 15

What are the 7 components of language?

Answer 15

Vocabulary
Categories
Concepts
Phrases/sentences
Comprehension
Inference
Extended sentences

Question 16

What are the 3 components of social communication?

Answer 16

Turn taking
Friendship skills
Conversation skills

Question 17

What are the 2 different models of communication in children?

Answer 17

Content form and use
Means reasons and opportunuties

Question 18

What is ‘content’ in the content form and use model?

Answer 18

Using the right words to convey a message
- concepts
- links
- sequencing

Question 19

What is ‘form’ in the content form and use model?

Answer 19

Intelligibility, putting words together in a grammatical sentence

Question 20

What is ‘use’ in the content form and use model?

Answer 20

making use of language for a purpose in context
- eg: greeting, debating

Question 21

What is the means, reasons, and opportunities model?

Answer 21

Means: how we communicate
Reasons: why we communicate
Opportunities: where, when and with whom we communcate

Question 22

What does the communication chain do?

Answer 22

Breaks down all of the steps involved in communicating and receiving a message

Question 23

What are the 8 steps in the communication chain?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What are the 7 blocks of the speech pyramid?

Answer 24