Stages of language development

• Pre-linguistic stage(1st stage)


  0-6 months.

  Communicate with sounds e.g. crying.

  Infants can recognise voices + sounds.
• Babbling stage (2nd stage)


  6-9 months

  Children begin to babble making noises but not words.

  Mouth muscles + teeth grow to prepare for more advanced talking.
• Holophrastic stage (3rd stage)


  9-18 months

  Start to say single words that describe objects and identify basic needs.
• Two-wors stage (4th stage)

  Child can speak 2 word sentences that usually have some meaning e.g. more food.
• Telegraphic stage (5th stage)

  24-30 months

  Child can speak phrases but grammar isn't prevalent.

  Child can understand basic instructions.
• Multi-word stage (6th stage)

  24-30+ months

  Able to build increasingly complex sentences that allow them to better communicate ideas.

  Able to use correct grammar e.g. dog instead of dogs.