Developmental Trajectories of Early Communication Skills

Abstract

The results support the potential of early screening in identifying children at risk of developing language difficulties, particularly when screening includes repeated surveillance of more than one area of communication skills.

Performance of South African children on the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales—Developmental Profile (CSBS DP)

“…, Määttä et al . ). Development in an array of early social communication skills underpins the launch of linguistic communication development.…”

“…, Määttä et al . ). Differences in early pre‐linguistic and linguistic skills have also been found to distinguish typically developing children from those with developmental delays such as autism spectrum disorder (Wetherby et al .…”

“…A child typically moves from being a largely nonverbal yet intentional communicator to having a language system with 100 or more words used generatively and creatively to form many novel word combinations that express a burgeoning knowledge of themselves and the world. The second year of life thus spans both the pre-linguistic communication stage, when children are intentional communicators but do not yet have a linguistic system, and the early linguistic communication stage, when children develop a generative semantic system evident in the production of creative word combinations and vocabulary growth accelerates rapidly (Bates et al 1987, Määttä et al 2012. Development in an array of early social communication skills underpins the launch of linguistic communication development.…”

“…Young children communicate with others for a variety of functions, such as requesting or protesting (behaviour regulation) and pointing out events or objects of interest (joint attention). The developmental importance of this array of early skills has now been highlighted by a substantial body of evidence linking individual variation in these pre-linguistic skills with language and cognitive outcomes in typically developing children (Watt et al 2006), and in children with developmental delays (Brady et al 2004, Määttä et al 2012. Differences in early pre-linguistic and linguistic skills have also been found to distinguish typically developing children from those with developmental delays such as autism spectrum disorder (Wetherby et al 2007).…”

Lapseen ja lähiympäristöön liittyvien taustatekijöiden yhteys sanaston kehitykseen 24 ja 30 kuukauden iässä

“…Aineiston perusteella näyttäisi kuitenkin siltä, että pojilla on selvästi suurempi riski kielen kehityksen viiveisiin ja kielellisiin vaikeuksiin kuin tytöillä (ks. myös Määttä, Laakso, Tolvanen, Ahonen & Aro, 2012). Stolt ja kumppanit (2008) tarkastelivat varhaista sanaston kehitystä 9-24 kuukauden ikäisillä lapsilla.…”