Module 2 test Bennett

2 Examples of Exploratory activities

Crib based activities like music and blocks

2 teacher directed activities

Finger plays, sharing books

2 different routine-based activities to promote language development

Naptime with lullabies and directive talk during diaper changes detailing what is happening.

Shared reference

Using the child’s cues to tell you what to do next. Like sharing a book

Communication loop

Conversation with a young child, engaging and responding even when you don’t know what they are saying.

Verbal Mapping

Describing what a child is doing or what is happening in their environment.

Child-directed speech

Tailoring your speech to a child’s level, slowing down speech and simplifying words.

Benefits of using symbolic gestures

Gives a visual to base words off of, can allow children who can not communicate well a way to communicate.

How do infants perceive different language sound

Starts in utero, along with prosody having a big impact, allowing the child to hear differences in more articulated speech.

Reflexive vocalizations

Sounds that are not controlled, such as burping, coughing, and sneezing

Non reflexive

sounds a baby makes and has control over, such as cooing and babbling.

cooing

Extended vowel sounds, aaa, ooo, eee

Vocal play

Practicing and playing around with how to produce different sounds

Babbling

Making consonant sounds and varying intonation.

Echolalic babbling

When a baby is trying to copy or echo what an adult is saying like having a conversation

Jargon

When a child is trying to have a conversation

Selective reinforcement

When you encourage a child to produce certain sounds

emergent literacy

When a child begins to understand that there is written language through books and everyday life, they see words.

otitis media

inflammation of the inner ear

Eustachian tube

The tube in the ear that allows fluid to drain

direct experience

experiences that allow a child to explore objects by touch, taste and smell

Vicarious experiences

what children see and hear about

Referent

Connecting a present object with a verbal symbol like giving a child a hat and saying hat

Symbol formation

When a child understands what an object is.

distancing

A child understands what an object is without it being present

Idiomorphs

Invented words

protowords

Word like sounds a child uses to convey a meaning

Holophrastic phase

one-word responses that have different pitch and intonation

Fast mapping

learning words quickly after little exposure

first 10 consonant sounds

D M P B G K W N H T

clozed

Giving time/pausing to allow a child to say the word