Activities for Preschoolers: Language Development
One significant factor in caring for young children is an understanding of the child’s capacity to communicate. Through gestures, eye contact, crying, or other means, babies communicate long before they speak. Early language acquisition is instinctive and tends to happen quite naturally. (Cortese, 2020). Caregivers play an important role in providing experiences that promote a child’s language development. This course will examine the progression of oral language from birth through age five, delineating milestones you will recognize as the child develops. It will provide strategies that encourage the child toward those milestones. While children develop differently, this course will outline behaviors that may indicate a language delay.
One significant factor in caring for young children is an understanding of the child’s capacity to communicate. Through gestures, eye contact, crying, or other means, babies communicate long before they speak. Early language acquisition is instinctive and tends to happen quite naturally. (Cortese, 2020). Caregivers play an important role in providing experiences that promote a child’s language development. This course will examine the progression of oral language from birth through age five, delineating milestones you will recognize as the child develops. It will provide strategies that encourage the child toward those milestones. While children develop differently, this course will outline behaviors that may indicate a language delay.
