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Prenatal Language Development
While still in the womb, a baby's ability to hear is forming. At about 22-26 weeks the baby can distinguish between different voices, sounds, and language. -
Birth Language Development
Babies recognize the speech patterns they heard in the womb and now interact with those around them as they hear, by using eye contact. -
2 mth old Language Development
Infants begin to coo and create vowel sounds that a caregiver usually imitates in the same way and now looks where the adult looks while talking. -
3-4 mth old Language Development
The baby now participates in games of peek-a-boo and taking turn games and these exchanges promote conversational behavior that they will need later on. -
5-6 mth old Language Development
The child is now babbling and can respond to their own name by looking. Some of their babbling can now contain repeating syllables. -
7-9 mth Language Development
Children can now associate a word with an object and participates readily and actively in turn-taking games and use showing and pointing motions. -
12 mth Language Development
A child's speech may now include their first word (s), and their sound and intonation patterns of their given language are understood as well as word comprehension increasing. -
12-24 mth Language Development
A child's vocabulary has greatly expanded to 200-250 words and they can combine two words (telegraphic speech) together to make "sentences." -
2 year old Language Development
They enjoy being read to, they notice that language is effective and can make simple request, they use 50-300 words, their talk has meaning to them, their receptive language is much greater than their expressive language, they can say 3-4 word statements, refer to themselves as me, and can expressive negative statements. -
3 year old Language Development
The child will begin talking about objects, events and the actions of others, will add information to a conversation, they will bring attention to themselves, they will be able to be understood, and they will have 300-1000 words. -
4 year old Language Development
The child will have intelligible speech, elaborate sentence structures, will change tone of voice, can sing simple songs, and recite their name, sibling's names, and answer questions about their needs. -
5 year old Language Development
Thy child will be able to retell a story, identify some colors, can recognize humor, produce sentences with five-seven words, speech is understandable, knows birthday, can answer the telephone correctly, and has a vocabulary of 1500 words. -
6 year old Language Development
The child will now talk all the time, their language pattern is indicative of their culture, they can carry adult-like conversations, they learn 5-10 new words a day and their vocab has 10000-14000 words, they can talk through problem solving, they can imitate slang, they can make up stories, and they can learn more than one language. -
7 year old Language Development
The child can now story tell on their own, they can write, they can use gestures appropriately while talking, they use adult-like sentence structure, they can do multi-step instructional activities, and they can describe experiences in great detail. -
8 year old Language Development
The child like to tell jokes, they can read with ease, they can use language to either criticize or complement those around them, they can follow grammatical rules, and they can have fluid conversations with adults. -
9 -10 year old Language Development
The child now talks all the time, they can express their feelings, they use language as a system of communication, they recognize and use slang and words that have double meaning, and they can understand when grammatical errors occur. -
11-12 year old Language Development
The child has longer sentence structures, they have become an active listener to the world around them, they understand different language styles, they understand iron and sarcasm, and they add 4000-5000 new words to their vocabulary each coming year.