Julie Wolbert
There is an old saying, “Everyday we should be learning something new, If your not your probably dead.” People are developing no matter our age, but it is how children develop and learn that sets each one of us apart. Child developments is at the earliest ages affects all aspects of a childs life. 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 Lois Bloom and Margaret Lahey describe in their book Language Development and Language Disorders “language is like a code, it is a means of representation” 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 way a child understands language will partially be based on the child’s background: 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 a critical foundation for children’s school readiness and academic achievement.
There are many reasons why children’s language development could be affected. Unfortunatly, one of the main reasons a child’s language could be