The sobering fact of family law is that to be in the business of orchestrating

TYPICAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Healthy children acquire language skills in a rather uniform progression
across languages and cultures, from the neonate’s primitive pairing of
sound and experience (e.g., mother’s voice
=
comfort) to the young
adult’s grasp of figurative language (e.g., idiom, proverbs, metaphor;
Nippold, 2007; Yang, 2006). These steps are described in broad strokes
in Table 4.1.
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However, differences in early language exposure and/or
medical complications of hearing or the physical mechanisms of speech
can delay or derail the process (Bishop & Leonard, 2000).