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Tables of Contents for Children's Communication Skills
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Figures
xi
Examples and case studies
xiii
Tables
xv
Key skills
xvi
Warning signs
xvii
Preface
xix
Acknowledgements
xxiii
Introduction: Human Communication
1
1
Communication, language and speech
1
8
The multi-factorial nature of human communication
9
8
What do children need to develop communication, language and speech?
17
1
Further environmental influences
18
3
Summary of introduction
21
2
The First Year
23
27
Hearing, attention and listening
23
2
Towards early verbal understanding
25
3
Communication and expressive skills in the first year: why do babies communicate?
28
5
How babies communicate: looking, moving and gesturing
33
5
Making sounds in the first year
38
7
Summary of Chapter 1
45
5
The Second Year
50
33
Attention and learning language
50
1
Play and symbolic understanding
51
3
Understanding meaning
54
6
Early verbal understanding
60
2
Communication and expressive skills in the second year: why do children communicate?
62
8
Using early words
70
5
Early speech
75
3
Summary of Chapter 2
78
5
The Third Year
83
36
Attention control
83
2
Links between play and language
85
5
Conceptual, semantic and vocabulary development
90
2
Understanding words and sentences
92
3
Communication and expressive skills in the third year
95
16
Speech development
111
3
Summary of Chapter 3
114
5
The Fourth and Fifth Years
119
34
Attention control
119
1
Links between play and language
120
7
Semantic and vocabulary development
127
1
Understanding words and sentences
128
3
Further developments in communication and expressive skills
131
12
Speech development
143
2
Emergent literacy skills
145
2
Summary of Chapter 4
147
6
Learning More Than One Language in Early Childhood
153
25
Bilingualism
153
4
Features of bilingual speech and the patterns and stages of bilingual acquisition
157
11
Bilingualism, cognition and literacy development
168
3
Environmental factors impacting on bilingual acquisition
171
4
Summary of Chapter 5
175
3
Problems Developing Speech, Language and Communication
178
20
The nature of communication difficulties
178
2
Environmental and internal factors contributing to communication difficulties
180
16
Summary of Chapter 6
196
2
Working with Parents of Children with Communication Difficulties
198
24
Which professionals?
198
1
Understanding parents of children with communication difficulties
199
8
Parent-professional relationships
207
4
Considerations for working with parents at different stages of their child's care
211
9
Summary of Chapter 7
220
2
Useful addresses
222
2
Glossary
224
12
Bibliography
236
11
Index
247