Language Skills Affecting Infants

Language is defined as a form of communication, where the communication can be verbally spoken, sign language, or in a written form, such as writing a paper for class (Myers & DeWall, 2017). Humans take time to develop their language skills and to learn words to incorporate into their vocabularies. The process of learning and developing language skills will start from childhood and continue forward.

Children learn social cues and language starting from an early stage of childhood (Myers & DeWall, 2017). Infants are unable to use or perceive language at the beginning. At the beginning, infants simply communicate by making sounds or crying. Around the age of four months, infants can start perceiving variations in speech, such as tones and volume of voices, and differences in languages (Myers & DeWall, 2017). This is the start of the infant’s receptive language milestone, where the Infants can perceive facial expressions and make sense of the sounds and speech coming from the lips (Myers & DeWall, 2017).

This milestone is where infants are starting to be able to understand what is being said discerning the infant and as well as what is being to and around the infant (Myers & DeWall, 2017). At the age of seven months, infants will reach the milestone where they are able to start breaking the language they

The receptive language is where child start developing their understanding of a language, the context of what words mean, what they mean to themselves and others, what speech sounds like and perceiving what others say to them and around them (Myers & DeWall, 2017). Children first develop their understanding of the language, the context of the languages used and spoken around them, and how language is used around them (Myers & DeWall, 2017). The productive language is how words are produced and developing the ability to produce these words (Myers & DeWall,