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Synthesising Skills
An extract
from a magazine
Unfortunately and annoyingly for some, there is no set timeframe for a
child to develop speech. You may be feeling frustrated thinking your child can’t
talk straight or walk straight, whilst all the other mums are enjoying
constantly bragging about how developed and clever their little bundles of joy
are. Your child may now be able to point to pictures in a book when you name
them or can point to a few body parts when asked, but speaking just is not
their strong point. You’ve tried and tried repeating words countless times and
being as encouraging as humanly possible, but it’s just not happening! But, it
could be that these irritating, bragging parents are simply overestimating what
their son or daughter is trying to say whilst you are trying to be more
realistic, Andrew Wilkinson says, ‘When parents detect the baby’s first words
they claim that he is beginning to talk… But to the linguist single words do
not constitute language, which depends on the relationship of one word to
another. These single words are now known as ‘holophrases’. So, who’s to say
that your child is underdeveloped? Who’s to say that these parents aren’t over
exaggerating their child’s milestones? Who’s to say that it even matters?
I like this very much. You have really identified what parents might be concerned about and you have a friendly, mature voice in helping to assuage those fears. Paragraphing? And where is your intro to your investigation? Make sure I come and see it next week.
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