ECE 343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joint Attention, Stuffed Toy
6 Oct 2020
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Between 9 and 12 months, show more social communicative behavior etc. about objects. Prior, they interact with objects and/or people, but do not interact with people. Now they might give/show objects to others, hold out arms to help get dressed, Infant points and looks at communicative partner at same time. They turn and look where another person is looking. The shared focus of two individuals on an object or event. Children with better joint attention skills show more advanced language later ( camaioni. & perucchini, 2003; morales, mundy, & rojas, 1998; mundy et al. , 2007; mundy & In some cultures, adults do not talk to prelinguistic children, but language acquisition still occurs. Joint attention may support acquisition, but not be essential. It seems clear that labeling an object while the child is attending to it is helpful to learning. Understand that people have intentions and figure out what those intentions are.
