Week 3 post 1

From this weeks chapter six reading I found it interesting to learn about the process and development of speech in an infant/ child. When I was growing up people would ask how did my sisters and I learned how to speak since my parents are deaf. Over time as I grew older and met new people I got used to the question and would never hesitate or think about that really hard since it was natural thing to me. So to answer the question that many individuals would ask is that my grandparents taught us how to speak but also my parents would sign to us as infants so; I had the opportunity to learn two languages at once. The topic of having deaf parents relates to the text and how it points out about babies connecting voices with certain faces. Not only would a child who has deaf parents be babbling but observing the motions of what was being signed to the child. Its fascinating to know that the child can connect certain faces with voices and when they know that the face and the voice do not relate they get upset or look confused. People may claim that babies do not think or speak until they are one or older is not true since babbling and other emotional connections happen between the child and its caregiver. In chapter six it talks about the building steps for the infant to be able to actually speak words starting with babbling, then first words, then the growth of many words (naming explosion), after that parts of speech (nouns, verbs), and finally creating sentences which leads to conversations. I have a niece who is five months old and she is in the babbling stages which is so cute. She gets really excited and babbles a lot and its hard to believe and know that it will eventually lead to her speaking her first words. Infants are very observant and by parents and caregivers interacting with the child it allows them to feel a connection and learn there language along with emotions.