Milestones of Language Development

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  • baby is born

  • 2 months

    Infants coo - vowel like slounds

  • 6 months

    Infants starts to babble, using consonants

  • 8 to 12 months

    Establishes joint attention
    Toddler say their first recognizable word

  • 18 to 24 months

    Vocabulary expands to 50 to 200 to 250 words
    Starts teegram speech, two word utterances

  • Age 3 years old

    Child is able to use words in the concrete form without visual references

  • Age 5 years old

    Expressives use of vocabulary words has increased to 2100 to 2200 words

  • Age 6 years old

    Approximately 2,600 words of expressive vocabulary and 20,000–24,000 words of receptive vocabulary

  • Ages 8 to 12 years old

    Learning words up to 12 words a day, in some cases up to 20 words a day

  • Age 10 years old

    Children's vocabulary development through reading moves away from learning concrete words to learning abstract words.