As infants we use paralinguistic communication which defined in my own words would be when infants use sounds and gestures to get our attention or are trying to communicate to us but cannot yet speak. For example some sounds that infants use would be crying. This sound communicates to us that the infant might want to be held, fed or even changed. Also infants communicate very often through gestures. A very common gesture is when an infant puts their hands out when they want to be picked up by someone. I have seen this first hand when I babysit infants that cannot yet talk. As I stated in my definition infants cannot yet communicate through talking so they use what is called babbling; which is infants trying to use their speech like we do as
