LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Ase

Output
waah

Prelinguistic
receptive phase,
rehearsal for language, mechanics

3 months

Expressive Crying. cooing, gurgling

Babbles, laughs, vocalizes to gain affention, proto conversations vowels, consonants, syllables Repetitive, tuneful babble linked to language of
oarents.

Recentive
Responds to parents

voice
Responds to tone

- 6 months
9 months
12 months

ba, ma, da

of

Common to all
languages

6 9

badanababobu na
ba da bo

voice Looks towards sound Understands'all gone',

ono' and'bye bye'

& all

babies

incl deaf

Jargon, imitating melody of conversations, uses ta

gestures

12-15
months

oafia

Using a few single words, reach for or point to what theY want

Linguistic

15-18
months

sta

l*yu,

t- ea/:/0,K rut
Development of expressive language
18 months

Nana gone

2 years
2

- 3 years

Where nana gone?

3-4yearc
4

I eat my banana today like good girl

6 -20 words uses pitch, intonation and changing volume when 'talking' echoalia holophrases (single words to mean different thinss) Up to 50 words Starting to put 2/3 words together Telesraphese, questioning 300 words, 4/5 words together, uses pronouns, grammatical mistakes' sheePs' asks questions, may stutter Uses grammar more correctly, can have complex conversations, including future & past events, asks
questions,

Understands simple instructions and words in context Points to obiects Points to parts of body, or pictures of objects in books, enjoys rhymes, tries to sing

Understands simple instructions & between 200 - 500 words

Concepts, big/little,

inlon/under, who/what/where Understands instructions

with 2 parts, why

questions, Understands humour, fol lows stories without pictures, adjectives,
sequences

enioysjokes

5 years

How do you make

paper?

Speech usually correct, asks meanings of abstract words, uses adverbs and prepositions, talks freely, can answer questions in detail