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Define Gaze Coupling
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infant-mother extended eye contact
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What are the first signs of a Baby Communicating
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Crying
cooing Babbling |
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Define Communication
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Giving and recieving of information
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Define Language
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intentional communication through sounds, body language, signs, and written symbols. Can be oral or Written
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Define Auditory
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experienced through or related to hearing
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Define acuity
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how well one uses senses or the degree of sharpness
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Describe the behaviorist theory
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Skinner says that Language develops due to a reponse or lack of interest in surroundings. Positive, neurtral and negative reinforcement have critical roles in child's behavior
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A parent responds to the Baby cooing. Baby likes the response and coos again. This is an example of ______
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Behaviorist Theory
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Describe the Maturation (Normative) Theory
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children go through predictable stages in order
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A new teacher learns the ages of her children and uses the information to develop appropriate activities based on the stage they should be in. This is an example of _____
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Maturation (Normative) theory
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Predetermined Innatists theory
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People are internally geared to develop language in a predictable order regardless of behavior.
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Cognitive Theory
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Piaget says Learn Language due to social emotional reasons such as curiosity, positive feedback, play, primary motivators (get food)
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Constructivist theory
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Children learn language because of interactions with environment. Playing, People, Songs
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What is a synapses
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the connections between dendrites in the human brain
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What is a conversation between adults and Babies
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This conversation is based on feedback. Mother notices baby smiling and makes a comment. Baby reacts, mother reacts
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What does research about infants and language mean to us?
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We should talk, converse, sing, play with our infants to give them language experiences. We should be aware of behavioral flags that can indicate the need to see a doctor.
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What are some things we can do to encourage language development during early infancy
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~talk in a pleasant soothing voice with simple langauge and eye contact
~Pause in coversation to give baby a chance to respond/react ~Make a game out of smilies sounds and movement when infant is reactive ~imitate sounds playfully and give new sounds for baby to imitate ~Use infants name |
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What can we do to encourage Language development in late infancy
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~Speak Clearly
~Explain what's going on now and next ~Do not interrupt infant ~Animate talk ~try finger plays ~Talk about environmental sounds |
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What kinds of books should you read with an infant
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Books that are sturdy, short, Have familar bright images
Books with rhythm |
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Define Phoneme
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the smallest unit of speech *smallest sound you can make*
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Define morpheme
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smallest unit in Lang with a recognizable meaning
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Define syntax
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arrangement of words in a sent.
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Define semantics
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study of meanings associated with words and acquisition of vocab
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pragmatics
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Study of how lang. is used effectively in social context
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What is inner speech
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private internalized speech that is apart of a child's thinking process
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How can we aid a toddler's Lang. Development?
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~Exposure to Language just above child's current level
~positive reinforcement ~Model ~Explain what you are doing while it happens ~read! |
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What is joint attention
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The child's awareness that they must gain and hold the focus of another during communication to get a point across. "When they learn get all of Mom's attn when they want something"
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What is symbolic Play
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when a toddler uses one item to represent another
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How does a child obtain language through music
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music helps a child's auditory discrimination with varying sounds. Toddlers enjoy to move and music gives them a chance to move. Catchy rhythms can challenge a child to learn to reproduce the sounds made to repeat the song. It teaches toddlers short and long sounds and catches attention
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What kinds of books and how shoulf you read to a toddler
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Read sturdy short books that have some rhythm to it an familar objects for the toddler. Read at least daily if not more and let the child aid in the reading process as much as possible. Allow story time to be interactive.
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