TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buckley,Belinda
TI  - Children's communication skills: from birth to five years 
SN  - 0415259932
AV  - BF723.C57 B78 2003
U1  - 401.93 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Nonverbal communication in children
KW  - Communication
KW  - Child, Preschool
KW  - Communication Disorders
KW  - Infant
KW  - Language Development
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index; Introduction: Human Communication --; Communication, language and speech --; The multi-factorial nature of human communication --; What do children need to develop communication, language and speech? --; Further environmental influences --; Summary of introduction --; 1; The First Year --; Hearing, attention and listening --; Towards early verbal understanding --; Communication and expressive skills in the first year: why do babies communicate? --; How babies communicate: looking, moving and gesturing --; Making sounds in the first year --; Summary of Chapter 1 --; 2; The Second Year --; Attention and learning language --; Play and symbolic understanding --; Understanding meaning --; Early verbal understanding --; Communication and expressive skills in the second year: why do children communicate? --; Using early words --; Early speech --; Summary of Chapter 2 --; 3; The Third Year --; Attention control --; Links between play and language --; Conceptual, semantic and vocabulary development --; Understanding words and sentences --; Communication and expressive skills in the third year --; Speech development --; Summary of Chapter 3 --; 4; The Fourth and Fifth Years --; Attention control --; Links between play and language --; Semantic and vocabulary development --; Understanding words and sentences --; Further developments in communication and expressive skills --; Speech development --; Emergent literacy skills --; Summary of Chapter 4 --; 5; Learning More than One Language in Early Childhood --; Bilingualism --; Features of bilingual speech and the patterns and stages of bilingual acquisition --; Bilingualism, cognition and literacy development --; Environmental factors impacting on bilingual acquisition --; Summary of Chapter 5 --; 6; Problems Developing Speech, Language and Communication --; The nature of communication difficulties --; Environmental and internal factors contributing to communication difficulties --; Summary of Chapter 6 --; 7; Working with Parents of Children with Communication Difficulties --; Which professionals? --; Understanding parents of children with communication difficulties --; Parent-professional relationships --; Considerations for working with parents at different stages of their child's care --; Summary of Chapter 7
N2  - Includes information on attention, conversation, expressive language, grammar, literacy, narrative, objects, play, social interaction, sounds, speech vocabulary, words, etc
ER  -