The stages of language and its development in boys and girls
Language is the basis of human communication and is key in the psychic development of man. Up to 5 years it is divided into three more or less differentiated stages, depending on the evolution that the child is experiencing.
Babies
- 0 – 3 months: When he is happy he emits chirps in a very soft way, consisting of a simple vowel type “aaaaaaa”.
- 2 – 3 months: Depending on the situation, the crying changes, depending on whether you are hungry, tired, upset or sick. As we get to know it, we will quickly identify crying.
- 3 – 4 months: The chirps it emits are more varied, and already include all the vowels.
- 5 – 6 months: Raise and lower your voice responding to your gestures and tone. If your baby does not make any sound by 6 months of age, consult your doctor.
- 7 – 12 months: Starts babbling by combining syllables and intonation. Imitate your conversation and “talk” by taking turns communicating. From the age of nine months, their sounds resemble yours more and more.
Children 1 to 3 years
- 12 months: Says first word and uses about five correctly.
- 14 months: He accompanies his words with gestures and intons questions of the type, more? If at fifteen months of age he still does not say a word, we should also consult a specialist.
- 16 months: Get noticed by calling (Mom! ), Shaking head to say yes or no, and mastering sounds with the most common consonants like mpbdt gu.
- 18 months: Uses common phrases to ask for things like I want water and has a vocabulary of five to twenty words. Use verbs like eat, nouns like mama, and adjectives like hot.
- 18 to 24 months: He begins to relate what is happening around him by constructing two-word sentences: it ‘s good, it hurts, I want more.
- 24 months: Already uses 150 to 300 vocabulary words. You can make three-word sentences with pauses while you process what type, Boy likes milk, or Mommy is coming here joining together.
- 2 to 3 years: He asks all the time about his environment. He is able to carry on a simple conversation. His vocabulary can reach four hundred and fifty words and includes many verbs in which he uses the past simple. Add –es to the end, in case of plural, and use the pronouns perfectly: I, she, we.
Children from 3 to 5 years
- 3 – 4 years : Already knows and uses up to 1,000 words and communicates without difficulty. He even tells you what happened while you were gone. His favorite words are what, who and why. It is normal for you to stutter with emotion, but if this persists for more than six months and you are gesturing or tense when speaking, it could be a language disorder.
- 4- 5 years : His vocabulary already reaches 2,000 words. Repeat a simple story from beginning to end and describe a scene with four or five sentences almost correctly. Pronounces all sounds although may have difficulty with the letters z, rr, r, s, l
