The Importance Of Language Development

As humans we learn from what we see and hear others doing, this is the same way that we learn languages. It is amazing to watch infants grow into toddlers and learning our language. To see how over a rather small amount of time they learn to not only understand what we are saying, but to use it in their life and learn more and more words, then to properly start using them. My youngest siblings are going to be 2 and 6 at the end of the year and to see how much they have learned in what is truly a small amount of time compared to the life expectancy of someone nowadays is simply put spectacular. We talk to the young using different tones and they pick up on not only the words to start repeating but also the tone and will recognize if it is a good or bad thing. This is a reason that when having an infant or toddler the ones around them will often repeat what they are saying to them and giving them or showing them, repetition has been

In children it tends not to be so bad if you are with a family that can use sign language to communicate and teach you growing up. But things get complicated when one is born deaf or hearing impaired and it is not discovered right away or if the family is not willing to learn sign language with their child and one their own. The number one thing I can say to do to help someone who is hearing impaired is to teach them sign language or find someone that can, and if you are going to be in their life then you need to learn too. This is so that they can communicate not only with you but you can help them communicate with the world that does not know their language. It is still a language, just in a different form, it can be verbal or nonverbal depending on the person. Children who are deaf will still pass through the same stages and at the same times as hearing children, they just have to learn a little differently (Crandell,