Stages of Language and Communication Development in Children

UNIT-14

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Activity One
Stages of language and communication development
Development signifies the manner in which a child grows and the changes that take
place. The language and communication development of the child can be classified into
five stages.
Pre-production, where the child is normally silent while listening to new words
Early Production, children begin to practice pronouncing new words
Speech emergence, they start to speak in longer sentences and to ask questions
Intermediate Fluency, they speak more fluently and improve their reading and writing
abilities
Advance Fluency, they expand their vocabulary
At every stage, the child reaches various milestones also known as the 'nature of a
stage' which includes mainly four domains that are the communication and speech,
cognitive, physical and personal, social and emotional.
Newborn (0-3 months)
When the newborn reaches to the domain of language and communication, he/she
starts cooing, making eye contact, crying and starts to listen to the voice of another
person.
Physical domain, babies start to move their arms, hands, legs and the head starts to
turn the way in which he/she hears any sound, the eyes of the newborn start to follow
the objects.
Social and the emotional, the newborn starts to smile within 2 or 3 months.
Cognitive, the newborn starts showing interest in the faces he/she recognises and
various objects.
Infant (3-12 months)
The communication and language domain- From the 3 months, the infant starts
babbling with increasing numerous sounds, listens and also might react or respond to
the babbling, learns about the conversations, react to sudden noises. From 7 to 9
months, the infant start recognizing its own name sound, looks at the objects and