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Language Development Chart

This document outlines language development milestones in children from birth to age 7. It notes skills attained in receptive, expressive, and conceptual language at various ages. For example, it states that between 6-12 months infants begin to babble and respond to sounds, and by 12 months most say their first words. The summary outlines progression to combining words, understanding simple commands, and developing age-appropriate vocabularies and sentence structures at later ages.

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Language Development Chart

This document outlines language development milestones in children from birth to age 7. It notes skills attained in receptive, expressive, and conceptual language at various ages. For example, it states that between 6-12 months infants begin to babble and respond to sounds, and by 12 months most say their first words. The summary outlines progression to combining words, understanding simple commands, and developing age-appropriate vocabularies and sentence structures at later ages.

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Language Development Chart

Age
Birth to 3 months of age

Milestone - receptive and expressive language development

By 6 months of age

Reacts to loud sounds


Calms down or smiles when spoken to
Recognizes your voice and calms down if crying
When feeding, starts or stops sucking in response to
sound
Coos and makes pleasure sounds
Has a special way of crying for different needs
Smiles when he or she sees you (NIDCD, n.d.)
Follows sounds with his or her eyes
Responds to changes in the tone of your voice
Notices toys that make sounds
Pays attention to music
Babbles in a speech-like way and uses many different
sounds, including sounds that begin with p, b, and m
Laughs
Babbles when excited or unhappy
Makes gurgling sounds when alone or playing with you
(NIDCD, n.d.)

By 12 months of age

Recognizes name
Says 2-3 words besides "mama" and "dada"
Imitates familiar words
Understands simple instructions
Recognizes words as symbols for objects: Car - points
to garage, cat meows (PRO-ED Inc., n.d.)

By 18 months of age

Point to an object or picture when it's named


Recognize names of familiar people, objects and body
parts
Follow simple directions accompanied by gestures
Say as many as eight to 10 words (Mayo Clinic, n.d.)

Understands "no"
Uses 10 to 20 words, including names
Combines two words such as "daddy bye-bye"
Waves good-bye and plays pat-a-cake
Makes the "sounds" of familiar animals

By 24 months of age

By 36 months of age

Gives a toy when asked


Uses words such as "more" to make wants known
Points to his or her toes, eyes, and nose
Brings object from another room when asked (PRO-ED
Inc., n.d.)

Identifies body parts


Carries on 'conversation' with self and dolls
Asks "what's that?" And "where's my?"
Uses 2-word negative phrases such as "no want".
Forms some plurals by adding "s"; book, books
Has a 450 word vocabulary
Gives first name, holds up fingers to tell age
Combines nouns and verbs "mommy go"
Understands simple time concepts: "last night",
"tomorrow"
Refers to self as "me" rather than by name
Tries to get adult attention: "watch me"
Likes to hear same story repeated
May say "no" when means "yes"
Talks to other children as well as adults
Solves problems by talking instead of hitting or crying
Answers "where" questions
Names common pictures and things
Uses short sentences like "me want more" or "me want
cookie"
Matches 3-4 colors, knows big and little (PRO-ED Inc.,
n.d.)

By 48 months of age

By 5 years of age

Can tell a story


Has a sentence length of 4-5 words
Has a vocabulary of nearly 1000 words
Names at least one color
Understands "yesterday," "summer", "lunchtime",
"tonight", "little-big"
Begins to obey requests like "put the block under the
chair"
Knows his or her last name, name of street on which
he/she lives and several nursery rhymes (PRO-ED Inc.,
n.d.)

Has sentence length of 4-5 words


Uses past tense correctly

By 6 years of age

Has a vocabulary of nearly 1500 words


Points to colors red, blue, yellow and green
Identifies triangles, circles and squares
Understands "In the morning" , "next", "noontime"
Can speak of imaginary conditions such as "I hope"
Asks many questions, asks "who?" And "why?" (PROED Inc., n.d.)

Has a sentence length of 5-6 words


Has a vocabulary of around 2000 words
Defines objects by their use (you eat with a fork) and
can tell what objects are made of
Knows spatial relations like "on top", "behind", "far"
and "near"
Knows her address
Identifies a penny, nickel and dime
Knows common opposites like "big/little"
Understands "same" and "different"
Counts ten objects
Asks questions for information
Distinguished left and right hand in herself
Uses all types of sentences, for example "let's go to the
store after we eat" (PRO-ED Inc., n.d.)

By 7 years of age

Uses a vocabulary of several thousand words


Begins to grasp that letters represent the sounds that
form words
May develop stuttering when under stress
Most children learn to read and write, although some
don't until after age 7
Pronounce words correctly. For example, most children
do not substitute the sound fr for thr in words like
through.
Are becoming better readers, but sounding out vowels
often can still be difficult
Still have some difficulty with basic spelling
(eBeanstalk, n.d.)

Reference
eBeanstalk (n.d.). Child development milestones for 7 year olds Language. Retrieved on
March 8, 2015 from http://www.ebeanstalk.com/milestones/23/Language.html
Mayo Clinic (n.d.). Infant and toddler health. Retrieved on March 8, 2015 from
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/infant-and-toddler-health/in-depth/languagedevelopment/art-20045163?pg=2
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) (n.d.). Speech and
language developmental milestones. Retrieved on March 8 2015 from
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/pages/speechandlanguage.aspx
PRO-ED Inc. (n.d.). Speech and language milestone chart. Retrieved on March 8, 2015 from
http://www.ldonline.org/article/6313/

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