How Communication Friendly Environments Aid Children’s Verbal Development and Communication. Elizabeth Jarman (2013) suggests that the environment around a child can affect how they feel. It can either support their learning and development or it can greatly hinder it. She puts forward that children are drawn to smaller, enclosed spaces that offer them a sense or a feeling of security. Jarman also proposes that children do not develop communication skills in isolation, but rather through being offered time and space in order to assimilate their newly found knowledge and to practise their newly acquired skills. A communication friendly environment offers children the chance to sort though what matters to them, to re-visit past experiences in order to process them fully, this then leads on the more effective communication skills. However …show more content…
Social-culturalism theories, like those of Vygotsky, suggest that children learn language through their emotional attachments and social relationships. It is through the interactions they have with others that communication strategies are acquired and developed (Brock & Rankin, 2008). Both of these theories point to the need for interactions with others for language to develop. The Every Child a Talker 2012 project, suggested in pre school settings the areas that are most appealing to children, offer a range of materials within them and are small den like or tented areas. These are enabling areas that support and aid children’s communication and allow children to interact in social relationships with their peers as they develop and try out new communication skills and strategies they have learnt. Cooper (2010), proposes that children communicate in response to a stimulus. This can be a visual, auditory or sensory stimulus. It is the stimulus that are within the communication friendly environment that can actively encourage children to