CSD 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Echolalia, Second-Language Acquisition, Jargon
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Before they are able to produce speech. They have predictable pre-linguistic vocalizations prior to their first words. Birth- 1 month: vegetative sounds; normal; natural biological sounds, not trying to produce anything, reflexive cries. 1-4 months: cooing, differentiated cry laughing, giving vocalizations starting to interact. 4-6 months: mimicking, imitating, repeating, repeating sounds over and over, marginal babbling. 6-8 months: more of the babbling, gathering multiple different sound productions, canonical babbling. 8-12 months: echolalia, vocables/protoword: not actually a word but they are making half words jargon, variegated babbling: making similar sounds. Encouraging child to answer more questions about their day: teaches the child how to take turns in conversation; how to stay on topic, conditioning the child to develop and evolve the skills that they have. Rea(cid:272)t to a (cid:272)hild"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior or verbalization. Child behavior parent reacts parent mirrors desired behavior child responds. Using an object that you are both aware of. A critical foundation skills for cognitive, social and language development.