Child Development

Everyday we are developing no matter our age, but it is how we develop children that will tell a tremendous amount an individual. How a child developments is fundamentally important at a young age as it affects all aspect of their lives once the child matures. Throughout the class, we looked at many theorists during the course of the semester as well as looked at many articles pertaining to the concepts of the development of children. The theorists and articles opened up our minds to a world that we have never seen before and concepts about child development we have never been taught but have seen in the practical work we do every week. What makes humans unique is the ability that we have to interpret the language being used, as Lois Bloom and Margaret Lahey (1978) describe in their book Language Development and Language Disorders “language is like a code, it is a means of representation” (p. 4). Although, everyone is able to interpret the use of language some interpret it more than others. This delay in language, we have learned, could be for a variety of reasons. The characteristics of a child will depend on: how they were brought up, who they were brought up by, what kind of condition they were brought up in, what kind of parents the child was brought up by, if was the child brought up in poverty, etc. Language is a key part in anyone’s life as it is a major form of communication. Language is what separates us from other species to be intellectual and to rule society. Language development is important in a child’s life as it will pave the way for successful communication with various other children and other people in society. By means of talking to one another when we are young they stated, development of language skills offer...

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...nally, I have seen this segregation of the two classes, as I grew up in an area which was predominantly made up of a low social class. Many of the people who lived in my area only lived with one parent and because of that they were greatly affective in a negative way at school. Children living with one parent are at a great risk of living in poverty and as mentioned this could lead to delays and also affect language development (Lucchese & Tamis-LeMonda, 2007).. Most of the students who went to my high school lived in Toronto housing buildings which were funded by the government, this was an immediate sign they had a low socioeconomic status. Judging by all the facts that I have seen through my research, I believe my high school did have the most educated individuals because at a young age they were not able to afford the resources that other were able to afford.