DEFINITION , EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
DEFINITION
Language development: the process of acquiring expressive and receptive language abilities
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
- 3 months: cooing sounds
- 6 months: consonants
- 9 months: babbling
- 12 months: single words
- 18 months: 5-10 words
- 2 years: combines 2 words, vocabulary of 50+ words
- 5 years: joins 3-4 words
- 3 years: creates simple sentences
- 4 years: tells stories
RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
- 3 months: recognises
- 6 months: responds
- 9 months: listens to speech
- 12 months: follows simple instructions
- 18 months: understands nouns
- 2 years: understands verbs
- 5 years: understands prepositions
- 3 years: understands adjectives
- 4 years: follows complex instructions