Media Resources

Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links and video chapter summaries by Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Chapter Video

  • 9.4 - Cooing
    This is an example of a baby cooing. These first sounds do not involve fine motor movements of the mouth and tongue.

  • 9.5 - Early Babbling
    This little boy is demonstrating the first form of babbling when he says "bababa." In this stage, the same sound is repeated.

  • 9.7 - Gestures and Signs
    This baby is being taught to sign. Here he is approximating the sign for more. This is the same stage as the video 9.4, but he is using signed instead of spoken language.

  • 9.8 -Comprehension of passive sentences
    This little girl is demonstrating whether she understands what a sentence means purely by the order of the words by acting out what she thinks the sentences mean using puppets

  • 9.9 - Private speech
    Young children use private speech to guide their behavior.

  • 9.10 - Diaglogic reading
    In this video, Grover Whitehurst explains what diagolic reading is and how to use these techniques.

  • 9.11 -Immersion Programs
    This is a video of an example of a Spanish immersion program. These children are native English speakers who are learning Spanish in school.

Video Links

  • Discovering Psychology: Language Development (28:06)
    A comprehensive overview of language development, including theories of language acquisition.

  • Baby Sign Language
    The video reviews how babies learning to sign affects their development of language.

  • Dialogic Reading
    The segment called "Reading as Dialogue" shows how dialogic reading is used in a preschool classroom.

  • Writing and Spelling
    Segments in this video describe ways to foster reading and writing in school-age children (including the use of invented spelling).

  • Dual Language Programs
    This is an example of a dual language program in Washington in which children learn 50% in English and 50% in Spanish. Video includes criticisms of these types of programs.

  • Myths About Bilingual Children
    This video dispells some of the myths of binlingualism and reviews some of the advantages of it.

  • Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teens
    This video, produced by The Stuttering Foundation, provides information on this common communication disorder.

  • Dyslexia: A Hidden Disability
    Dyslexic adults (including some high-achieving celebrities) talk about their experiences before their disability was recognized.

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