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Pre-verbal communication

Infants arrive in the world with:

  • Some starting points for communication;
  • An ability to recognise patterning;
  • The capacity to distinguish their home language over others; and
  • A preference for the moving human form.

Watch the extract from the Open University video 'Simple Beginnings'.

What aspects of pre-verbal communication do you notice?