Children Normal Millstones in Language Developments:

The starting three years of child: is the time of brain’s developing and budding .It is most crucial time period for a child to learn speech and language. First 3 years are vital period for absorbing knowledge and obviously learning of speech and language skills comes first. The child who gets more exposure of words, views, sounds and language of adult pronunciations (proper words) can develop these skills in a best manner. Difficulty in learning occurs when the initial three years passed without exposure of consistent sounds and speech. Therefore, it is important to check a child’s speech milestones in particular from birth to age three.

Millstones in Language developments:

Birth:

Cries

3^rd Month:

Coos, Gurgles

4^th Month:

Differentiate sounds and respond to human sounds.

5^th Month:

Make Vowels and consonants

6^th Month:

Babbles single syllable(ma,mu,da,di)

8^th Month

Reduplicate babbles ( Mama,dadi),

Intonates (make voice in a particular tone)

12^th Month

Understands some words as symbols

18^th Month

Still Babbles, talks 2 to 50 words, not many joined

24^th Month

Starts speaking more than 50 words(particularly nouns) and two words phrases

30^th Month

Fastest increase in vocabulary, daily new additions

36^th Month

 Shows 1000 words vocabulary, 80% is fully understandable to strangers.

Reference: adapted by Lennebeg(1967)