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REINSTATING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Author(s) -
McCONKEY ROY
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1979.tb00106.x
Subject(s) - communication skills , psychology , language development , developmental psychology , pedagogy , medical education , medicine
The title is deliberately paradoxical. The vast majority of parents in nearly all cultures have been, are, and will be intimately involved in developing their children's communication skills. It is they who provide children with an impetus to communicate and a milieu which is highly conducive to learning. And they are mostly successful. Their children do learn to communicate even by our most sophisticated method, language. Parents achieve this without any training, with little prior experience and in the absence of any specialist help.