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Children's Language Development Milestones

By CherBart
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    Birth to 3 months

    Vocalization is limited tocoos and cries
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    3 to 6 months

    baby will try to respond to you by cooing and babbling, cries become more distinct in terms of differentiating between a hungry cry and 'I want to be held" cry, just to name a few.
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    Around 6 months to 1 year

    Incorporates at least one or two words, in most cases uses gestures to convey words like "up" or "bye-bye". Starts to
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    Around 12 months

    Starts to babble more, words are easy to detect like 'ma-ma', 'da-da' or 'ba-ba'
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    By 18 months

    incorporates two-word sentences like "more milk" or "all gone"; Has a vocabulary of between 5-20 words.
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    Between 2-3 years old

    Rapid increase in vocabulary (150-300 words). Words become more clearer.Can use up to 2-3 word sentences. Can understand questions posed to them by a caregiver, ie:
    where's your hand/feet?, can you give me kisses?
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    Preschool age of 3 to 4

    Can use 3-4 word sentences. Vocabulary consists of about 900 to 1500 words. Begins to tell stories to describe things they've seen or done.
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    School age kids (5-year-old).

    Vocabulary increase. Children begin to learn how to read and write. Conversations develop that incompasses more than just within a family environment.
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    Early school age(6) to Adolescents(18)

    Language development is slowed and stabilizes. Vocabulary expands from about 2,600 to 60,000 words.
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    Adulthood(18+ years in age)

    New words are added, perfect grammactical forms, specialized vocabulary develop (work environment, religion, hobbies, education)