Transitions in Prelinguistic Communication
Transitions in Prelinguistic Communication

Author: Amy M. Wetherby

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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Speech and language professionals have been studying the significance of prelinguistic communication sin ce the 1970s. This is the first book to compare and contrast the emergence of intentional and symbolic communication in young children. '

The Transition from Infancy to Language
The Transition from Infancy to Language

Author: Lois Bloom

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521483797

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In this important volume, Lois Bloom brings together the theoretical and empirical work she has carried out on early lexical development. Its focus is on the expressive power children acquire as they begin to talk and, in particular, on contributions from cognitive development, affect expression, and the social context for making the transition from prelinguistic expression to the expression of contents of mind. The first half of the book reviews the developments in infancy that enable the emergence of language and presents the theoretical perspective required for an understanding of the longitudinal study described in the second half. The book's main thesis is that language is acquired for expressing contents of mind and that its usefulness as a 'tool' is of only secondary importance. The Transition from Infancy to Language makes a major contribution to our knowledge of early lexical development, providing a persuasive theoretical model for researchers and students.

Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development
Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development

Author: Sam Goldstein

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 038777579X

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This reference work breaks new ground as an electronic resource. Utterly comprehensive, it serves as a repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new material long before it finds its way into standard textbooks.

Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood
Cultural Worlds of Early Childhood

Author: Dorothy Faulkner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1136223096

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This reader contains source material for an up-to-date study of child development as it applies to major issues in child care and education. The emphasis is on studying early childhood in cultural contexts - in families and in preschool settings. Part 1 elaborates a socio-cultural approach to early development, taking emotional attachment, communication and language and daycare as examples. Part 2 considers how children's emerging capacities for empathy, inter-subjectivity and social understanding enable them to negotiate, talk about and play out relationship themes, both in the family and preschool. Part 3 concentrates on early learning, with chapters on the way parents support children's acquisition of new skills, young children negotiating their role in learner-teacher relationships and toddlers learning to collaborate with each other. Part 4 continues the theme of children's initiation into socio-cultural practices from a cross-cultural perspective, with studies drawn from such diverse contexts as Cameroon, Guatemala, Italy, Japan and the United States. This is the first of three readers which have been specially prepared as readers for the Open University MA Course: ED840 Child Development in Families, Schools and Society.

The Social and Cognitive Aspects of Normal and Atypical Language Development
The Social and Cognitive Aspects of Normal and Atypical Language Development

Author: Stephen v. Tetzchner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1461235804

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For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in develop mental journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems like a conservative estimate. Hence, a series of scholarly books devoted to work in cognitive devel opment is especially appropriate at this time. The Springer Series in Cognitive Development contains two basic types of books, namely, edited collections of original chapters by several authors, and original volumes written by one author or a small group of authors. The flagship for the Springer Series is a serial publication of the "advances" type, carrying the subtitle Progress in Cognitive Development Research. Each volume in the Progress sequence is strongly thematic, in that it is limited to some well-defined domain of cognitive developmental research (e. g., logical and mathematical development, development of learning). All Progress volumes will be edited collections. Editors of such collections, upon consultation with the Series Editor, may elect to have their books published either as contributions to the Progress sequence or as separate volumes. All books written by one author or a small group of authors are being published as separate volumes within the series.

Language Development
Language Development

Author: Peter Jordens

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-04-11

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 3110854813

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