Language Literacy and Cognitive Development

<p><em>Language Literacy and Cognitive Development</em> addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development.</p><p>Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically whether that involves communicating linguistically mathematically logically or through some other symbol system expressed in speech gesture notations or some other means.</p><p>The book contributes to refining and answering questions regarding the nature origin and development of symbolic communication in all its forms and their consequences for the cognitive development of the younger child at home and the older child at school.</p>