Survey on linguistic and communicative development on a children

Survey on linguistic and communicative development on a children sample in the first
eighteen months of life.
Della Vedova A.1, Tomasoni, V., Manfredi, P., Pagliaini, L., Mahony, A., Imbasciati A.2
This work is the result of a longitudinal survey about the early stage of the communicative
development of the child. On a 61 children sample, through a structured questionnaire, filled by the
parents, we have token information at the 10th and the 18th mounths. We have therefore inquired on
the communicative development both in the oral expressions and in the symbolic gestures. A great
attention has been placed in the appraisal of those elements of the communication that are indicated
as the forerunner of the language. We have therefore found the existing relationship between the
oral and the symbolic communication, we have tried to identify their possible influence on the
development of vocabulary and grammar.
The work has essentially found interesting relationship between the development of the symbolic
thought and the linguistic one.
Key words: language, development, infancy.
1
Anna Della Vedova ha curato la stesura dell'articolo con la collaborazione di Vincenzo Tomasoni, che ha
particolarmente seguito la parte statistica, entrambi hanno partecipato alle varie fasi della ricerca e all'analisi dei
dati. Paola Manfredi ha curato la scelta degli strumenti, del campione, e insieme a Lucia Pagliaini e a Anna Della
Vedova ha esaminato i bambini, Alessandro Mahony ha collaborato all'analisi dei dati, il prof. Antonio Imbasciati ha
curato la supervisione del progetto di ricerca e dell'articolo stesso.
2
Università degli Studi di Brescia, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Cattedra di Psicologia Clinica