New parents have just learned that their child is deaf, and they would like to know how to foster the development of language ability in their child. Discuss the recommendations that might be made to these parents, given your knowledge of language development
What will be an ideal response?
Deaf children learn to speak in the same way that hearing children do. As there seems to be a sensitive period for language development, this child, like other children, will require stimulation from his or her environment in order for language ability to develop to its fullest. These parents can expect to see the same course of language development in their child as they might expect in a hearing child. The child may begin to use gestures that mimic those that he or she is exposed to, for example, and soon those simple gestures will be combined in an unsophisticated manner that resembles the babbling of infants. Lastly, the child will begin to emit gestures that are accurate and correctly represent the stimuli of interest. This will be followed by the combining of gestures as a means of conveying a thought or sentence.
You might also like to view...
Describe factors that appear to be important in sustaining children's involvement in sports, applying this specifically to children's motives, sports organizations (such as the American Youth Soccer Organization), and coaches.
What will be an ideal response?
Lily is interested in conducting an experiment to demonstrate that there are some situations in which men are more likely to conform than women. Which strategy should Lily adopt in designing her study?
a. She should have participants engage in a discussion about politics. b. She should have participants engage in a discussion about fashion. c. She should tell participants that they are being observed throughout the study. d. She should tell participants that their primary goal in the study should be to appear attractive toward groupmembers of the opposite sex.
Various physical measures of bodily changes associated with mental conditions are
a. psychophysiological assessments. b. neurophysiological analyses. c. bodily disruption indices. d. common sense connections.
Josh constantly complains about fatigue, muscle tension, and sleep problems. He is irritable, worries incessantly about little things that cause others in his family no concern, and has trouble concentrating. From his symptoms, it is likely that Josh has:
A) generalized anxiety disorder. B) major depression. C) bipolar disorder. D) dissociative disorder.