Language Development

By awilson9446

  • 7 Months

    Babble is still around, but infants are able to say actual words and understand some spoken words

  • 2 Months

    Infants start being able to make coo sounds and begin to babble. Repeating constant vowel sounds

  • 4 Months

    Infants are interested in peek a boo

  • 1 Year

    Babbling is turning into intonation and speech patterns

  • 18 Months

    Vocabulary expands

  • 2 Years

    Spoken vocabulary is growing to many common words, gaining 200-250 new words

  • 2 1/2 Years

    Toddlers gain the ability to create short sentences

  • 4 Years

    The ability to ask questions becomes more pronounced.

  • 5 Years

    adult like sentence structure and problem solving

  • 6 Years

    Kids have the ability to follow instructions

  • 9 Years

    Kids begin understanding complicated vocabulary and have the ability to ask for help

  • 12 Years

    Longer sentences, understanding of conversation topic, and understand formal and informal conversations (friend v.s teacher)