CHALLENGES FACED BY ANABSEWA CHILDREN DURING THE BABBLING STAGE OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

This study examines The examine the Challenges faced by Anabsewa children during the Babbling Stage of language acquisition, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey approach, which enables the researcher to gather, analyze and interpret the set of data, which explain the underlying factors that surround the need for this research work. The researcher used the primary and secondary sources of data, but reliance was placed more on the primary source because of its relatively factual nature. The study The target population for this study consists of all caregivers and parents of Anabsewa children aged between six and twelve months. and The researcher sampled 100 caregivers and parents of Anabsewa children was selected using a snowball sampling technique. A questionnaire was used to collected data where mean and standard deviation were used to analyses the data. The findings are as follows: There are specific challenges faced by Nigerian infants during the babbling stage of language acquisition, linguistic diversity in Nigeria influence babbling stage language acquisition in infants m any ways, cultural and socioeconomic factors has a significant impact on language acquisition during the babbling stage in Nigeria, There exist a relationship between language input and babbling stage language development in Nigerian infants.