Hi, children are exposed to preferences in communicating at home, within a care setting, at friends and extended family member's homes that impacts on the way they communicate with immediate family, other adults and children. It's also knowledge that can guide the way care providers communicate with parents, family and children.
Methds of communication.
Eye contact may have more or less prominence in a family's way of communicating & as such have an influence on the way children communicate.
Vibrant noisy families may have children that communicate in a similar way, as children from quieter families may.
Larger families may have less time to focus on individual children or structure their day to promote communication with their children.
Childcare arrangements may guide children's methods of communication with adults and children - children from working families may share their parents experiences of work and routines, children with home based parents may share interests, day to day experiences indoors and out, use of care providers - paid for and extended family/friends language, experiences and provisions. Ratios of adult to child interaction and child to child interaction may impact on the maturity and variety of verbal language and body language.
Some children will experience swearing as part of their families language and use it themselves to help communicate with others.
Smoking, alchol, drugs, tv, video, gameplaying, hobbies & interests - martial arts through to painting all have actions of use that children may take with them and imitate in order to communicate.
Confidence and self esteem impact on methods of communication.
Accents, local dialect can cause difficulties and barriers for communication.
Access to the internet will impact families knowledge and use of email, websites, video, photos, social interaction.
Personal preferences in communicating can cause difficulties - telephones may not be used by children in role play areas due to a families dislike or reluctance to use them, this in turn can guide the way in which a setting communicates with parents, who may prefer texting rather that direct contect on the telephone. Messy play can cause barriers for children to creatively comunicate where a medium has caused a dislike of mucky fingers/hands or has at some time been discouraged by adults or children.
Like, preference and dislike of music will affect a child's ability to communicate at times where music is used as a means, or method of communication - self & group expression .. that child may be the lyric song writer of the future and communicate with a thousand listeners
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Face to face communication requires a level of language and literacy skills, confidence and self esteem as does reading and writing - letters, newsletters, dates & events.
Families with less disposable income may not have access to resources - toys, art materials, days out, clubs and activities that would support children's growing language acquisition - verbal & non verbal and the method of vocalising or signing words/actions to communicate
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