Language Development Timeline

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  • 3 Months

    Kids will respond vocally to another person crying and smiling.

  • 8 Months

    Kids begin giving different gesturing to adults and one another.

  • 12 Months

    Kids start their first words around this time.

  • 18 Months

    Kids can now combine words with the basis of word order rules.

  • 2 Years

    Kids begin to add bound morphemes to their words when speaking.

  • 3 Years

    Kids begin to have more adultlike sentence structure.

  • 4 Years

    Begin to change the style of talking to fit in the the person they are having a conversation with.

  • 5 Years

    There is 90% of Language from learned, when hearing from others and repeating.

  • 6 Years

    Begins to learn visual mode of communication with writing and with reading.

  • Adolescence

    Able to participate completely in conversation and also able to tell narratives.