Risks associated with communication delays in infants from underserved South African communities
Author(s) -
Jeannie van der Linde,
De Wet Swanepoel,
Frances Page Glascoe,
Elizabeth M. Louw,
Jannie Hugo,
Bart Vinck
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
african journal of primary health care and family medicine
Language(s) - French
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2071-2936
pISSN - 2071-2928
DOI - 10.4102/phcfm.v7i1.841
Subject(s) - psychosocial , medicine , toddler , intervention (counseling) , language delay , developmental psychology , social communication , pediatrics , language development , demography , nursing , psychology , psychiatry , sociology
For optimal development young children need warm, responsive, enriched and communicative environments for learning social, language, and other skills. Infants and toddlers exposed to psychosocial risk lack enriched environments and may present with communication delays.
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