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Essay on Language and Psychology
Abstract
This paper initially discusses what is language and some brief introduction to how the language disorder is caused and then further on it discusses some of the common language disorders and the methods of research.
Introduction
Language is the expression of human communication through which knowledge, belief, and behavior can be experienced, explained, and shared. This sharing is based on systematic, conventionally used signs, sounds, gestures, or marks that convey understood meanings within a group or community. Recent research identifies "windows of opportunity" for acquiring language: written, spoken, or signed that exists within the first few years of life.
Between 6 and 8 million individuals in the United States have some form of language impairment. Disorders of language affect children and adults differently. For children who do not use language normally from birth, or who acquire impairment during childhood, language may not be fully developed or acquired. Many children who are deaf in the United States use a natural sign language known as American Sign Language (ASL). ASL shares an underlying organization with spoken language and has its own syntax and grammar. Many adults acquire disorders of language because of stroke, head injury, dementia, or brain tumors. Language disorders also are found in adults who have failed to develop normal language skills because of mental retardation, autism, hearing impairment, or other congenital or acquired disorders of brain development. Some statistics compiled from fact sheets produced by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD):
Between 6 and 8 million people in the United States have some form of language impairment.
- Research suggests that the first 6 months are the most crucial to a child's development of language skills. For a person to become fully competent in any language, exposure must begin as early as possible, preferably before school age.................
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