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0-2 Months (Form: Phonology)
Alex makes a number of impulsive sounds such as fussing, yawning, and sneezing. -
0-2 Months (Content)
Alex is visually attentive. For example, when she hears the television, she turns her head. She is also startled when someone rings the doorbell. -
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Infancy
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0-2 Months (Use)
Alex is really shy when she meets new people and will not make any eye contact with someone who is not familiar around. She also starts crying when the unfamiliar person holds her. -
2 Months (Form: Phonology)
Alex is two months old and she has begun to produce consonants and vowel-like sounds. The phonemes that are being produced is not true phonemes but are important for creating VC and CV utterances. -
4 Months (Content)
Alex now recognizes the difference between accidental and intentional actions. For example, her father knocks over a glass of water and says "Oops" and she understood that he did not mean to knock over the glass of water. She also knows the differences between people, animals, and motor vehicles. -
5 Months (Form: Phonology)
At 5 months, Alex's utterances have improved from being an unclear vowel and consonants vocalization to clear CV syllables such as baa and daaa -
7 Months (Form: Phonology)
Alex has progressed from a single CV syllables to jargon babbling. She usually repeats the same noises such as "da da da" -
8-10 Months (Use)
Alex begins to use intentional communication and also has been following preverbal language functions such as attention seeking, greeting, rejecting, and responding. For example, Alex shows signs of shock when someone laughs at her when she is playing. -
11 Months (Form: Phonology)
Alex's phonemes are gradually grown more complex. She now more complex VC syllable form like "op", VCV like "ala" and CCV "bla" -
11-12 Months (Use)
Started to use imperative pointing and utters his first true word. For example, Alex sees her older sister eating animal crackers and points to it afterward. -
11 Months (Content)
At this stage, Alex understands about 5-8 common words used in this household which includes, no, Papa, Mama, peas, and night-night. She also understands someone's action to mean that there is a purpose. -
12 Months (Content)
Alex has spoken her FIRST TRUE WORD. She has now used "Mama" to refer to her mother. -
12-16 Months (Form: Phonology)
Alex produces 25% of the words intelligibly. She has also started to change the syllables in words by saying ba ba instead of bottle. -
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Toddler
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15 Months (Content)
Alex's vocabulary has prolonged to six words that are commonly used in her household. Her current vocabulary consists of no, Papa, Mama, night-night, peas, and tak which she says for thanks. -
19-24 Months (Morphology)
At this stage, Alex has now reached her 50-word mark and produces utterances of single nouns such as cat is napping. -
20-24 Months (Form: Phonology
Alex is able to say "Hello" and "Goodbye". She is also starting to add pitch variation to her speech, specifically when she is asking questions. -
21 Months (Content)
Alex now has an extensive vocabulary of 5 words. using mostly nouns and verbs, while adding more adjectives. Such as "cool" and "mean" -
24 Months (Syntax)
Alex is starting to put sentences together, demonstrating syntax. Realizing that it is easier to gain attention with combinations of words. For example, "Here Daddy! Here Daddy!". -
28-32 Months (Form: Phonology)
Alex is beginning to demonstrate final consonant deletion. Saying "It's a ba." (bag) -
28 Months (Content)
Overgeneralization is still a problem for Alex. Exhibiting categorical overextension, she uses "Dog" for everything that has four legs, including cows, horses, and cats. She also uses "Fly" to every insect she comes in contact with, including spiders, butterflies, and ladybugs. -
31 Months (Morphology)
Alex is beginning to add in Grammatical morphemes to her words. Giving the understanding that something belongs to the person he is speaking about. Such as "Daddy's drink" when he drinks his morning coffee. -
36 Months (Syntax)
Alex is starting to understand the coordination of words and their meanings. She begins to say "I eated" for "I ate" as she is starting to apply the rules of past tense -ed, -ing, and -s. -
36 Months (Form: Phonology)
Alex is becoming more and more intelligible and is able to pronounce 80% of her words intelligibly. "I want food." versus when she was only 12 months and saying the single word food. -
34 Months (Use)
Alex is beginning to become more and more curious about the things happening around her. Specifically, the functions of the objects as well as why things get done in certain ways. -
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Preschool
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40 Months (Content)
Alex has a comprehension percentage of roughly 30% more at this age, which is roughly 1000-1500 words. She is also beginning to distinguish relation terms such as smooth and soft, and how they correlate with tactile sensation. -
44 Months (Content)
Alex is starting to understand simple kinship terms when referring to her mommy and daddy. She is having more difficulty with the terms aunt and uncle. -
44 Months (Use)
Indirect requests are becoming more understood, along with nonverbal pointing, So Alex will point at the microwave while saying "the food is done." informing her parents that the food is cooked. -
44 Months (Morphology)
Alex has a better grasp on how to use past tense better. Contractions are now the next stage at this age. For example, an auxiliary contraction is when Alex points at a woman and say "she's running" -
48 Months (Content)
Alex still has a small overgeneralization issue for some words, however, it is more from her perception and less based on appearance. An example would be "twister" for a screwdriver. -
52 Months (Use)
Alex is starting to use logical functions to express logical relations between ideas. For example "let's put on our coats because it's cold outside." -
52 Months (Morphology)
Alex is starting to use subordination and coordination in their sentences. Irregular plural forms are also becoming more consistent when she speaks. For example, "the elves music be cold at the north pole." -
58 Months (Use)
Alex begins to use more narrative speech with a sequence of event, but no character or theme. For example, "there is a cave with bears but they were about to have a baby, the baby was gone. she was all alone." -
58 Months (Content)
She is learning about 2 new words a day and is able to use around 1,500 to 2,000 words and is able to understand 2,500 to 2,800 words. She communicates with her classmates frequently, including requesting items and asking questions. For example, she will as another student "Can I borrow that marker?" "Do you need help?" -
58 Months (Syntax)
Alex has the vocabulary to communicate, and her syntax is just as developed, and as she learns new words, they rely on their knowledge of syntax to incorporate her new words into her vocabulary.
