Language Development from Birth - Eighteen

By kaitlynshrove

  • 3 Months

    Responds using sounds to someone

  • 8 Months

    Begins to gensture with intent to communicate

  • 12 Months

    Begins to use first words with intent

  • 18 months

    Begins to use words by combinign them and using word-order rules

  • 2 years

    begins to add morphemes

  • 3 years

    more adult like sentance structure occurs

  • 4 years

    Begins to reconize audience and adjusts language accordingly

  • 5 years

    90% of language is learned

  • 6 years

    Begins to incorporate reading and writing with their language skills

  • Adolescence

    Begins to participate in regular sentences and uses narratives