Language Development

over the life span.

The basic stepping stones for language

Listening and attention

Comprehension

Speech and language

Social skills

Learning the basic

interactions at birth
Babies learn to look at you when you speak
tor a familiar sound is heard.
They begin to try to mimic and learn the
basic communication skills such as eye
contact.
Langue development is important as early as
the first few days after birth.

0-6 months
Able to express excitement to a

Babbles to self

sounds or voices

Learns to make vocal noises for

attention

Able to sense basic emotions in

voices by tone and pitch (happy ,
sad , angry , etc.)

6- 12 months
Able to understand simple instructions
Recognizes their own name
Communicates with adults taking turns
as a form of conversation

Begins to lean to speak single words

Enjoys rythan (such as ryiyes or music)

12- 18 months

Understands more words that can actually be spoken

Associates speech with gestures

Can speck 10-20 words

Copys adults speech and social interactions
Childs pitch tone and volume began to change with emotion.

18-24months
Between 200 500 words are
known to the child.

Only about 50 are accurately

spoken .

Sentences are being to be spoken.

Simple Questions being asked .

Teaching a old dog new tricks

Its harder to learn a new langue
than after the age of 12 because its
harder for adults to understand the
unimportant sounds as well as the
important sounds.

Teaching a old dog new tricks continue

Unless you are learning from a
younger age to be able to show the
difference between the two

More people tend to learn better if

they are also taught at a younger
age different launage

Work cited
http://psychology.about.com/od/
developmentalpsychology/ss/earlychildhood-development.h