LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN
Language development Language development during infancy every child is born with certain inherent capabilities to acquire language. ⚫ During the first-year verbal communication develops by virtue of sensitivity to language. cognitive and social skills and environmental support ⚫ The first skill to develop is phonological. It enables recognition and utilization of sound units and combining them into words clauses and phrases. Most of the infants are not able to generate a complete sentences till the age of two and the ability continue to develop through childhood years and adolescents and further refinement takes place till adulthood. Prelinguistic phase ⚫ A process of prelinguistic development gradually takes place before the child even acquire the first steps of verbal communication. Babies actively produce different sounds right from the birth onwards to attract attention from their caregivers Babies sounds and gestures go through the following sequences during the...