Hi, I'd also look at body language and the way children communicate through actions: holding out arms, waving, smiling, eye conact, shaking & nodding their heads, sitting quiety, running, walking, verbal communication which can be words and vocabulary and also crying, screaming, whistling ..
Children also communicate through play - by being actively involved without adult encouragement or unnecessary direction helps to communicate they are positive about their participation and also communication through the use of interaction and their senses: taste, touch, hearing, sight, smell enables them to communicate likes/dislikes which helps you get to know them and the way in which each individual child prefers to communicate.
Visual aids & auditory aids such as pictures, written text, use of others & own vocabulary/words in connection with the senses of touch, taste & smell are all resources that help communication happen.
Hth xx
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