We as human beings are one of nature’s most complex forms of like. Our development is much slower than that of any other mammal. Humans are born with brains that need input, and call upon our environment to deliver that input to help develop our brains. It is also in those early years of like those are that are most critical for acquiring speech and language skills. Those skills are refined with an environment that is full of sounds, sights and constantly hearing words of those around us. When we are born our first sign of communication is crying. Infants learn early on that crying will get their basic needs met such as, food, comfort, and the touch of their caretakers. As infants the first few months of language development consists of babbling.
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Therefore when an infant is hungry and hears the word “bottle” it may settle them down temporarily. Soon after, around eight month to a year toddlers are able to say their first words. This is followed by vocabulary spurts at around 18 to 24 months. There should be up to 200 words in a child’s vocabulary by the time they are 2 years of age. Lastly, by the time a child reaches 6 years old they should have up to 10,000 words they can say. All of these milestones in speech and language let parents and doctors know if a child is on track with normal speech development or if they need extra help in speech development. One strategy that teaches children to learn how to speak is child direct speech. A good way to help a child develop language skills early on is by talking directly to them. Although, it is …show more content…
One group was taught the name and shape of an object over an eight week span, while the other group was left out of these lessons. The lessons consisted of the children being taught four names, and each name was matched with two objects that had different features other than its shape. As these children were trained they were told and shown what objects to retrieve by an experimenter. The children had three objects to pick from that the experimenter showed them and asked for. The objects matched the item the experimenter displayed in color, texture, and shape. The trained group picked the correct object. This ability the trained group displayed lead to a faster acquisition of object names, showing that children who were taught shape bias showed increases in vocabulary
Therefore when an infant is hungry and hears the word “bottle” it may settle them down temporarily. Soon after, around eight month to a year toddlers are able to say their first words. This is followed by vocabulary spurts at around 18 to 24 months. There should be up to 200 words in a child’s vocabulary by the time they are 2 years of age. Lastly, by the time a child reaches 6 years old they should have up to 10,000 words they can say. All of these milestones in speech and language let parents and doctors know if a child is on track with normal speech development or if they need extra help in speech development. One strategy that teaches children to learn how to speak is child direct speech. A good way to help a child develop language skills early on is by talking directly to them. Although, it is …show more content…
One group was taught the name and shape of an object over an eight week span, while the other group was left out of these lessons. The lessons consisted of the children being taught four names, and each name was matched with two objects that had different features other than its shape. As these children were trained they were told and shown what objects to retrieve by an experimenter. The children had three objects to pick from that the experimenter showed them and asked for. The objects matched the item the experimenter displayed in color, texture, and shape. The trained group picked the correct object. This ability the trained group displayed lead to a faster acquisition of object names, showing that children who were taught shape bias showed increases in vocabulary