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Infancy of Summer
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Baby Summer is Born!
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0-3 Months Old
Form: Baby Summer is starting to produce cooing and gooing sounds. ex- "ba" and "gaga".
Content: She begins to hold and inspect two-dimensional objects. Summer will also mouth some objects. ex- Summer picks up a block she is playing with, looks at it, and puts a corner of it in her mouth.
Use: She starts to become aware of strangers and unfamiliar people that she encounters. Summer will start to look at people in a brief manner. ex- Summer looks at new people who come over to meet her. -
3-6 Months Old
Form: Summer can distinguish language that belongs to the same rhythmic class. She starts to produce vowel sounds and vowel glides. ex- "a", "o".
Content: She can distinguish between purposeful and accidental actions. She begins to form object categories ex- able to know that when her mom drops something and mom says no, that it was an accident.
Use: She is now able to recognize her own name and fixes gazes on others' faces. ex- "Hi baby summer" in a high-pitched voice, she looks up at her mom. -
6-9 Months Old
Form: Summer is able to discriminate between two allophones of the same phoneme. She begins to segment words from fluent speech. ex- words with t & th, she can distinguish the difference.
Content: She starts to make attempts to imitate gestures. Is able to understand the word "no". ex- She draws on the wall and mom says no so she stops.
Use: Summer is beginning to engage in joint attention.
ex- Summer's mom points at toys. Giving her mom to toy and the mom giving to toy back. -
9-12 Months Old
Form: Summer is able to identify words in the speech that do not conform to the native language stress pattern. ex- she can hear different words that are different from her language which is English.
Content: She is able to understand rational actions as means to a goal. As well as understanding 5-10 words. ex- is able to understand words such as mom, dad, no, yes, and her name
Use: She will be using more imperative pointing ex- she points at the dog saying "ah doog". -
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Summer is a Toddler!
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12-15 Months Old
Form: Summer has unintelligible speech, except for a few words. 50% of her utterances consist of single nouns. ex- Summer starts to use sounds in words but is not able to put full words together.
Content: Summer spoke her first word! ex- She said "Mama"
Use: Summer starts to use referential gestures, such as line of regard, gestures, voice direction, and body posture. ex- Summer uses referential gestures is when she turns to her mother to tell her something. -
15-18 Months Old
Form: Summer starts to pronounce about 25% of words intelligibly.
Content: She uses negation (no). About 33% of all utterances that Summer pronounces are single nouns. ex- Summer says no when her mom asks if she is hungry.
Use: Summer uses between 3 and 20 words. ex- Summer is beginning to expand on "Mama" and say "Dada" or "Dog".
Content: Uses verbal turn-taking. ex- Summer converses with her mom and she then waits for her mom to say something before Summer says something else. -
18-21 Months Old
Form: Summer begins to process spoken words incrementally. She begins to use grammatical morphemes like "ing". ex- Summer says "Let's go running."
Content: Summer begins to produce about 50 words. She uses some verbs and adjectives. ex- she says "I slide" when she is going down the slide on a playset.
Use: Summer uses gesture word combinations and uses two gesture combinations as well. ex- Summer nods when her mom asks her a question. -
21-24 Months Old
Form: Summer is asking questions with rising intonation. She also pronounces about 65% of all words intelligibly. Summer begins to use two-word combinations. ex- uses "in" and "on". She also uses plural and possessive morphemes.
Content: She comprehends approximately 500 words and produces about 200 words.
Use: She begins to use imaginative and informative language functions. ex- starts to have imaginative play like pretending there are dragons and fairies while playing with toys. -
24-27 Months Old
Form: Summer is able to ask questions with rising intonation. Pronounces about 65% of all words intelligibly.
Content: Comprehends approximately 500 words. Produces about 200 words.
Use: Begins to use imaginative, heuristic, and informative language functions.
ex for all: is able to ask for things she wants like toys or food, Summer says, "I want flying hamburger". -
27-30 Months Old
Form: She pronounces 70% of all words & demonstrates phonological processes.
Content: She overgeneralizes about a third of all new words & attends to sentence structure when interpreting new words.
Use: Introduces and changes discussion topics & engages in short dialogs.
ex for all: "I wan to play da ba" meaning "I want to play with the soccer ball" She is committing the final consonant of some words and overgeneralizing soccer-ball to ball. -
30-36 Months Old
Form: She suppresses the most common phonological processes by this age. Pronounces about 80% of all words intelligibly.
Content: She comprehends approximately 900 words Produces approximately 500 words Asks simple questions.
Use: She clarifies and requests clarification during conversations. ex for all: Summer asks "what are you doing? what does that mean? why does that happen?" this incorporates that she is able to ask and find clarity in conversations. -
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Summer is in Preschool
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36-42 months
Form: Summer begins to develop shallow phonological awareness abilities and continues to refine articulatory skills.
Content: She uses pronouns such as they, and them. She continues to use fast mapping to learn new words and uses 1,000–1,500 words Comprehends 1,500–2,000 words.
Use: She begins to engage in longer dialogues and begins to use primitive narratives begins to make conversational repairs. ex for all (F,C,U)- Summer engages in conversations and uses pronouns when talking to others. -
42-48 Months Old
Form: Summer has mastered most consonants. She decreases the use of phonological processes. Uses articles, past tense, and contractions consistently. Combines four to seven words in sentences. Also uses irregular third-person verbs. ex- "He has an apple."
Content: Understand some kinship terms. Overextends new words on the basis of the object function. Uses reflexive pronouns. ex- "The dog cleaned itself."
Use: Understands indirect requests and constructs true narratives. ex- "Oh it spilled." -
48-54 Months Old
Form: Uses subordination and coordination in sentences. Uses irregular plural forms consistently. ex- "look at the geese."
Content: Uses "what do", "what does", "what did" questions. ex- "what did the dog do?"
Use: Uses indirect requests. ex- "I want that." -
54-60 Months Old
Form: Knows Letters make up own name. Has some persistent phonological processes. Combines 5-8 words in sentences.
ex- "I am going to granny's house."
Content: Uses 1500-2000 words, comprehends 2500-2800 words. Uses deictic terms (this, that, here, there). ex- "There is a puppy here!"
Use: Uses narrative with a sequence of events but no main character or theme. ex- "There was a pretty flower and I saw a butterfly, then ducks swimming in the pond."
