Developmental stage (i.e., infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age)

Language Development

Before completing this discussion, review Chapter 6 in your text.  After examining the research in human development, please complete the following discussion: Language is a complex communication system that changes as we age. Identify and examine a developmental stage (i.e., infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age) describing the language skills at your selected phase. Describe how biological and environmental factors influences and shape the skills of the selected developmental stage.

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It is interesting to know how language development takes place in infancy. Even in that young age, language can be seen in infants. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association defines language as the shared rules in a society that guide the meaning of and making of words and gestures (Newman, and Newman, 2009). Their language skills are however different from the older people. In this stage, the infant’s language receptive skills are more advanced than their expressive skills. This means that in this stage, the infant will hear a language and interpret it. For example…

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