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Language Birth to 18
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3 months
Three month old babies will actively make sounds at a person who makes sounds to them. -
8 months
Around eight months old, babies start to use gestures, such as pointing at things they want. -
12 months
Once they get to the one year mark babies will start putting those sounds together and they will get a word, such as ball, cookie, or Dada. -
18 months
Most 18 months old toddlers can combine two or three words to let caregivers know what they want. -
2 years
2 year olds will add bound morphemes to their words, such as, <dog> with <ie> creating <doggie>. -
3 years
By the age of 3, most toddlers are using sentences regularly, and use them in more adult ways. They will create conversations to get what they want and to entertain those around them. -
4 years
Four year old start to change they way they speak according to who they are talking with. -
5 years
Language and sentence structure is learned in the first few years of elementary school, while building from what the child has learned at home. -
6 years
Letters and words begin to take on meaning together, rather than as separate entities -
Adolescence
During the rest of the elementary school years and into high school the child learns to perfect their speaking, sentence structure, and the correlation between them.
