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This course explores how digital habits and everyday communication together shape children's speech, language, and development from birth to age six. Designed for parents, teachers, and early childhood educators, it helps you understand how technology use, both yours and your child's, interacts with communication development, and how to build everyday environments that support both healthy screen habits and strong language growth.
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Using AAP and WHO guidance rather than treating screens as simply good or bad, the course covers device-by-device guidance on smart speakers, video calls with family, educational apps, and passive video, plus technoference, how adults' own screen use can interrupt attention and language-rich interaction. It also covers the foundations of early communication: key milestones, and how responsive interactions, shared attention, play, reading, and routines give children opportunities to develop language, so the digital guidance connects to why it matters.
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Finally, the course introduces common warning signs related to speech, language, hearing, and communication, including limited vocabulary, difficulty understanding language, unclear speech, and differences in fluency. The focus is on early recognition rather than diagnosis, helping you know when observation, hearing assessment, or professional advice may be appropriate, so you can create language-rich, responsive, screen-balanced environments where children thrive. Enroll today!
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**Publisher:** Sabina Vukić
**Course type:** Certificate
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***PLEASE NOTE: WHILE YOU WILL BE ASKED TO PURCHASE A PAID ALISON CERTIFICATE UPON COMPLETION, THIS IS OPTIONAL AND NOT A REQUIREMENT TO RECEIVE YOUR VERIFIABLE CREDENTIAL ON YOUR YOID. THE VERIFIABLE CREDENTIAL ON YOUR YOID IS SUFFICIENT PROOF OF COMPLETION.***

English

Child Development

Learn how everyday screen habits shape your child's speech, language, and communication development.

Balancing Screens and Speech: Language Development in the Digital Age