Monday, October 1, 2007
Paying Attention
SInce we started SED 260 in August has anyone else noticed yourself paying more attention to language and/or communication skills. I ask because at work Sunday I caught myself paying very close attention to a young man who has serious stuttering speech because of an accident he had as a young boy. I was assissting him in the store where I work and I was interested in the adaptibilty skills he used to communicate his needs to me. Is anyone else becoming more in-tune to language and/or communication?
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I would definetly have to agree with you. I work in a daycare, and never really payed attention to how my children communciated language, but it is like now i watch and some of them i see have a problem with getting the words out, while others speak so naturally, and some even stutter, at such a young age. It never bothered me before, but it keeps me interested in talking to them more and more so i can understand them help them in anyway possible!
I know what you mean, today I observed a class where they were discussing different ways to communicate. I caught myself answering the questions (silently). Before this class, I would have never paid attention to this lesson. I also realized how much I have learned. Sometimes in class, I find myself thinking I will never learn this. I guess I'm learning more than I thought.
Oh yea... I have found myself doing it on numerous occasions!
I agree with you all. I keep kids at church on Sundays and one of then has a speech problem (I say problem becuase I am not really sure what it is tech.) I find my self helping him figure out how to say things rather than just saying it for him
I agree as well. I am finding myself listening more to the people around me and picking up on language and communication difficulties, etc. I work at Subway here in Richmond (one of the many, I know) and I catch myself paying such close attention to how the customers communicate/use language amongst themselves, and with me. Sometimes someone will come in with a hearing disability, or who stutters, or who speaks very little english....It's quite fascinating now actually. I think Cathy White has turned on a new light for me :)
Also, when my boyfriend and I visit his family, I find myself fixed on his one-year-old baby brother. The more I watch him grow and develope, the more I can't take my eyes off him. And I think of what "stages" he's entering with language development, etc. It's all around me, and it's like I never noticed it all before....
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