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Description of  Typical and Atypical Child and Adolescent Development 5 Communication and Language Development: Communication and Language Development (Topics from Child and Adolescent Psychology)

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the development of communication and language in infancy and childhood. It integrates insights from both typical and atypical development to reveal the fundamental aspects of human growth and development, and common developmental disorders. The topic books in this series draw on international research in the field and are informed by biological, social and cultural perspectives, offering explanations of developmental phenomena with a focus on how children and adolescents at different ages actually think, feel and act. In this volume, Stephen von Tetzchner explains key topics including: Language and Communication early development of communication theories of communicative development early dialogues gestures the development of language language in use child-directed language gender differences, multilingualism and language in other modalities and language disorders. Read more