Sandra Bochner & Jane Jones 
Child Language Development [PDF ebook] 
Learning to Talk

This publication is concerned with the early stages of language
acquisition and is designed for use by early childhood teachers,
nursery nurses, special education teachers and others working with
children experiencing difficulties in learning to talk. Procedures
are described that can be used to assess a child’ s current skills
and plan activities to increase communicative competence.
The programme described is based on a developmental sequence
that moves the early skills of joint attention, turn-taking and
appropriate play to the more complex skills of asking and answering
questions. Other issues discussed include sound development and
intelligibility, the use of augmentative and alternative
communication as stepping stones to speech, working with children
and with families.
The second edition has an expanded focus on the place of
communicative intentions in early language development.

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