Childrens communication skills

Studies on the problem?

Whoops! Just read another jane10 post claiming the proportion has increased.

What does "a lot" mean as a proportion of the whole school intake for a reception year?

I'm asking if it's really "a lot" or an understandable proportion given average parental language skills (or lack of them).

All this assumes that the parents have the communication skills themselves to pass on. If the parents themselves grew up in an equally language deprived environment how can they help their children?

I think much of the anger and violence among young men, especially arises from their poor communication skills that mean they cannot verbalise their every day needs and emotions and fear those who can.

Lack of verbal skills, like unemployment cascades down generations and all children in deprived areas should automatically be able to get into Sure Start schemes that concentrate on developing communication skills and also draw the parents into parent and toddler groups within Sure Start that can help parents improve their communication skills as well so that they can help their children.

There have always been children with developmentally delayed language but the percentage affected by this appears to have increased a lot.

When our DD was young I was a full-time mummy. Being at home all the time with DD gave me the opportunity to communicate all the time with her. I remember teaching her all the normal things (to me anyway) about language skills. She grew up can handle herself very well, in a top professional career which involves speaking in public. Her own DS is now in the same position. Being spoken to all the time by not only DD and DSIL but by all of us and he such a wonderful speaker even at the young age of 2. Young mums and anyone else in charge of young children must communicate with their children. It's not up the the government to teach communication skills. It's the family.

Jane10 I agree with you up to a point, but as far as I remember this problem always existed, but for different reasons.
We had a Speech and Language Unit at our clinic in the '80s to '90s and they were kept very busy. Children with delayed language development.
Perhaps there are more now.

I think this is going to become a real problem in the future.Partly because of adults on phones ignoring the children and children on electronic devices from such a young age. I appreciate that a lot of children have to attend nursery but I think that adds to the lack of communication in that there is very little one to one time due to staff child ratio.

Jane10 I think it is lazy parenting. A parents role is to prepare and teach their children to go out into the world and discover new things. Even a car journey can become a fun learning experience, counting different colour cars, looking for fire engines etc.

Every day chores can be made fun, counting goods in and out of trolleys, letter magnets on fridges. Screen time can be used as a learning tool.

I think some parents use tv and screens as babysitters, and to keep them out of the way. We do monitor screen time with our GC on 'our watch' and adhere to the guidelines set by their parents. I also limit my time on iPad and iPhone whilst around GC.