Week 1 Typical Communication Development from Birth to 5

Question 1

What is the sentences to stories stage?

Answer 1

Children have mastered basic content-form-use and begin to use complex sentences to express meaning (3-4 years age)
Children have learned to use multi-utterance speaking turns and develop their ability to express narratives (4-5 years of age)

Question 2

What is the words to sentences stage?

Answer 2

Children progress from limited to expansive content-form-use interactions (2 to 4 years). Starting to combine words.
Children have developed their ability to use multi-word utterances to express basic sentence types including declaratives, interrogatives, negatives, and imperatives (3 to 5 years).
Children have developed basic morpho-syntactic skills including the acquisition of Brown’s (1973) grammatical morphemes (3-5 years)

Question 3

What is the games to words stage?

Answer 3

Children develop a sense of subjectivity, enabling them to have intentions (5-8 months).
Children develop a sense of inter-subjectivity, enabling them use communicative intentions (9-14 months)
Children begin to use words to express their communicative intentions, emergence of content-form-use interactions.

Question 4

What is language?

Answer 4

Content
-Semantics

Form
-Phonology
-Morphology
-Syntax

Use
-Pragmatics

Question 5

How is content affected by Developmental Language Disorder?

Answer 5

Delayed acquisition of first words and phrases

Restricted vocabulary and/or problems finding the right word for known objects

Question 6

How is form affected by developmental language disorder?

Answer 6

Errors in speech production and poor phonological awareness

Errors in marking grammatical tense

Simplified grammatical structures, and errors in complex grammar

Question 7

How is pragmatics affected by Developmental Language Disorder?

Answer 7

Difficulties understanding complex language and long stretches of discourse

Difficulties telling a coherent narrative

Difficulties understanding abstract and ambiguous language

Question 8

Interactionist components to consider with DLD:

Answer 8

Usage Based Theory (Tomasello, 2003)

Intention Reading
- Child notices the intention of the communication partner; later knowshis own intention

Pattern Finding
- Child recognizes routines, and eventually schema

Role Reversal Imitation
- Child starts doing things themself

Event Representations and Scripts (early schema)

Question 9

What is serve and return?

Answer 9

When a baby says something, respond to them! Doesn’t just have to be words, can be motions.
Helps baby feel understood.