Joint attention
Pre-communicative skills are the cornerstone for building healthy and sound communication and language. Among these skills is attention or Joint attention, which starts from the age of the first months of the child’s life. It takes place through attention between the people surrounding the child and the object to be interacted with. The interaction contributes The participant, if used correctly, builds communication between the child and those around him, and builds a good linguistic repertoire. Through this article, we will learn about Joint attention and its most important basics.
Joint attention
Co- attention is one of the pre-communicative skills that takes place at an early stage in a child's life in order to build his vocabulary and linguistic knowledge as well as build the basics of correct and effective communication. Co-interaction consists of the presence of a person with the child, the child himself and another object. The Joint attention takes place between these three components so that the child shows interest in an object or the person who plays with the child, so they care about the same object, as well as using this skill in activating the routine to build a linguistic code for the child and analyze the language properly to produce the first word.
How does the attention take place?
Joint attention The attention of the child and the person to one object, for example when the child and the person look at the same game is considered a Joint attention the person is playing with a game and the child looks at it is considered joint attention or the child plays with the game and pays attention with the person and interacts with him with a hand joint attention, The joint interaction is exploited in daily life to increase the linguistic stock by interacting with the child on the same game and using it to express serious linguistic vocabulary, For example, by using games that generate music so that the word a child or a person presses on the game and it produces a sound and both of them interact with the sound, thus we have built a Joint attention, and we have developed the skill of cause and effect as well, all of which are important skills for building sound linguistic foundations. toys One of the daily games that we play is also the game of peekaboo, which contributes greatly to activating and developing the joint interaction skill. Or we can bring some toys that make sounds and put them in front of the child and comment on them and interact with them.
How does Joint attention increase the linguistic outcome?
ِAttention, communication and continuous attention between the child and those around him would build the foundations of the linguistic outcome; For example, when you and the child look at a book and read it, the child connects the words that come out of you with the body in front of you, which is the book, and works on linguistically analyzing the words based on the body in front of you, so he gets to know a new word and a new name. If we think in this way and link it to the issue of banning the use of screens for children, Because the communication process is incomplete with the presence of a message and a receiver, the absence of the sender, and the lack of use of joint interaction in the presence of a body without a linguistic outcome with a sound structure, which reduces the possibility of the child acquiring the linguistic vocabulary and building the foundations of communication properly
Use Joint attention with your children and in your daily life to increase and strengthen your child's language vocabulary and build sound communication. Exploit every moment in your routine and with your child to teach him ways to communicate and build a sound vocabulary for him
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