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0-1 Years of Age
1-5 months: babies cry to communicate their needs and wants. At this age the newborn begins laughing. 6-7 months: babies respond to their names, start making noices and understand emotions from the tone of voice of the parents. 7-10 months: they start putting words together but meaningless. 10-12 months: verbal communication begins by imitating adults language and slowly develop words like "mama" and "papa" with sense. -
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1-2 Years of age
At 12 months: Children start to repeat the words they hear.
Children learn much of their verbal communication through repetition and observing others.
At 15 months: Speak and make their voice go up and down and Use four or five words.
At 18 months: Use five to ten words and understand easy directions.
At 2 years: Use two or three words together, such as "more juice".
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2-3 years of age
• Children experience something known as the turn-taking style. This also teaches them skills of patience, kindness, and respect.
• Creates biological patterns for the child and creates interactional synchrony during their preverbal routines which shapes their interpersonal communication skills early on in their development.
• Children during this stage in their life also go through a recognition and continuity phase.
• Children start to see that shared awareness is a factor in communication a -
3-5 Years of Age
-At 3 years: Toddlers are still learning how to form abstract thoughts and are still communicating concretely.
-At 3-4 years: They begin to participate in short conversations with others, but with some issues.
-At 4 years: As they continue to develop their communication skills they start including pronouns, and auxiliary verbs.
-At 5 years: They start develop the skills to listen and partially understand what another person is saying and can develop an appropriate response. -
5-10 Years of age
The preoperational stage:
5-6 years: the child learning to read letter by letter recognizes numerals from 1 to 10.
6-7 years: The child Talks a lot, asks many questions and learns a lot of words a day. Concrete operational stage:
7-8 years: Children are able to incorporate inductive logic, learn to classify and relate, and measure distances and quantities.
8-10 years: children speak in complex and compound sentences and have good-sized vocabularies that continue to grow rapidly. -
10-20 Years of Age
The early teenage years are marked by many changes:
1. PHYSICAL CHANGES: Physical changes that occur during puberty result from hormonal changes.
2. MENTAL CHANGES: The adolescent begins to struggle for independence and control, many changes occur.
3. EMOTIONAL CHANGES: Shows strong feelings and intense emotions at different times.
4. SOCIAL CHANGES: searching for identity: young people are busy working out who they are and where they fit in the world.
