Language for Behaviour and Emotions: A Practical Guide to Working with Children and Young People

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Difficulty in the realm of language and communication during childhood can hinder a child’s ability to confidently express their ideas and observations of the world around them. You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. This includes pediatricians, family practitioners, speech/language pathologists, educators, early childhood educators and mental-health practitioners. Young children’s understanding of other people’s feelings and beliefs: Individual differences and their antecedents.

Consider how your perceptions of people are affected by the way they sit, walk, stand, or hold their head.Emphasizing a point: The tone of voice you use and the way you engage listeners with your hand and arm gestures, or by how you take up space, are all ways that affect how your message comes across. Smiling is perhaps one of the greatest body language signals, but smiles can also be interpreted in many ways. Interministerial and multidisciplinary integration is required because of the implications that undiagnosed language impairments have for health, mental health, child care, education and the youth justice system.

Talking in front of a class full of students or giving a presentation at work are good examples of such situations. Additionally, there are a plethora of videos with songs to help introduce the topic of emotions such as this video, entitled Feelings. Covering the mouth may be an effort to be polite if the person is yawning or coughing, but it may also be an attempt to cover up a frown of disapproval. Things they pay attention to include your timing and pace, how loud you speak, your tone and inflection, and sounds that convey understanding, such as “ahh” and “uh-huh.

With 30 years’ experience in the field, he is co-author of bestselling Speechmark resources Language for Thinking (2nd edition, 2017), Word Aware (2013) and Word Aware 2 (2017).