Child Psychology : Development of Language and Communication

Children begin developing essential communication skills from the day of their birth. While speech and language may come a little further down the line, we begin exploring methods of communication from the moment we’re born. Ongoing speech and language development throughout childhood can have the most enormous impact on the rest of an individual’s life. The vast majority of speech, language and communication issues in general can be traced back to developmental issues during childhood. By addressing issues at the earliest possible stage, child psychologists help children of all ages overcome speech and language issue quickly, effectively and completely.

This exclusive tutorial has been designed for existing and prospective child psychologists and general care-providers alike. Learn about language development throughout childhood, while exploring a series of associated concepts including phonological development, lexical development, morph-syntactic development and the linguistic process. Explore the evolution of communication, common learning difficulties and communication issues, how language skills develop at different ages and more.