K2D3 Communication development 0 to 16 years

K2D3 – An outline of how children’s communication skills develop within the age range 0-16 years.

Communication Development 0 – 16 years

What do we mean by the – Pre-linguistic Stage?

0 – 3 months

• Reacts positively and prefers main Carers voice.
• Makes cooing sounds and gurgles when happy or in response to speech.
• Cries when upset, wet, tired and hungry.

3 – 6 months

• Responds with obvious pleasure such as chuckles, laughs and squeals.
• Vocalizes delightedly and tunefully to self or when spoken to or pleased using babbling sounds or “da da, goo, der, adah” sounds.
• Cries when uncomfortable or annoyed, but can be comforted.

6 – 12 months

• Vocalizations contain most vowels and many consonants such as “dad dada”.
• Shows that they understand several words in usual context such as own name, family names and familiar objects.
• Comprehends simple instructions associated with gesticulation such as waving ‘bye bye’, ‘clap hands’ or ‘pointing’.

Linguistic Stage

12 – 18 months

• Communicates with between 2 to 10 recognisable words to the main Carer.
• Imitates speech heard and uses short phrases such as ‘mummy gone’.
• Attempts to sing and jabbers loudly, freely using wide range of different pitch.

18 months - 2 years

• Puts two or more words together to form simple sentences.
• Uses between 50 to 200 recognisable words.
• Constantly repeats words and learns at least 10 new words.

2 – 3 years

• Starts to ask many questions beginning with ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘who’.
• Carries out simple conversations and has a larger intelligible vocabulary.
• Begins to recognise plurals correctly such as ‘dog(s)’, ‘cat(s)’ etc.

3 – 4 years

• Knows and understands several nursery rhymes and songs.
• Asks many questions such as ‘why’, ‘when’, ‘how’ and ‘who’.
• Speech grammatically correct and intelligible to strangers.

4 – 8 years

• By 5 years old their vocabulary is about 5000 words and their speech is fluent.
• Enjoys telling and repeating jokes.
• Begins to define their language and use more complex sentences.

8 – 16 years

• Fluent language, reading and writing skills.
• Language is fully developed and they are able to converse in larger groups.
• Able to use complex sentence structure.

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