Understanding of Communication and Language Difficulties

Difficulties with Language and Communication in Classroom: Theory and Practice

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Abstract

My first class about language and communication development motivated me to speak to my

mother about my infancy years and when I first started to speak. My mother was quite

surprised to hear my questions and very happy to re-live those days of early motherhood and

the joy of hearing her child speak for the first time.

From the literature I understood that language "comprehension," is not a simple single skill –

to actually comprehend spoken language involves a multi stage process which starts from the

reception of a sound stimulus at the ears and involves the ability to classify the speech sounds

and relate them to a mental dictionary, to interpret the words heard using the order in which

they are spoken and the tonal inflections, to relate what is heard to the social and

psychological context and ultimately choose from multiple possible meanings to the correct

one meant by the speaker (Bishop, 1997).

I understand that language disorders in children could arise from a problem at any stage in the

above multi stage process and as an educator I would need to identify the correct stage where

a child has a problem in language and communication.