ABSTRACT

Developing Children’s Communication from Birth to Four Years is an encouraging guide for practitioners and students working with young children in the Early Years Foundation Stage, which will also appeal to parents and family carers. Providing a clear outline of children’s needs, responses and abilities at each developmental stage, it guides the reader on:

• how to recognise and predict children’s individual feelings and reactions;

• how to talk and listen to children at different stages;

• how to be aware of body language and other non-verbal forms of communication;

• how to support communication for children with special and additional needs.

Offering advice, ideas and strategies for supporting relationships and understanding in diverse settings and at home, this book is an essential guide to developing communication and social skills in the early years.

chapter

Introduction

chapter 2|10 pages

Taking notice Six months to twelve months

chapter 4|12 pages

Branching out

Eighteen months to twenty-four months

chapter 5|15 pages

Fighting for independence

Two years to two and a half years

chapter 6|20 pages

Enlarging the social circle

Two and a half years to three years

chapter 7|20 pages

Finding a place

Three years to three and a half years

chapter 8|18 pages

Letting creativity soar

Three and a half years to four years