Infant&ChildDevelopment
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- Language development begins cognitively before it begins verbally. Crying and cooing begin at birth. Around 6 weeks a baby will begin making vowel sounds (ahh, eee, ooh). At the age of 6 months, a baby can babble and make a variety of sounds, and can exchange facial expressions (like smiling). Talking with a baby teaches them about conversation, yet language typically happens automatically through interactions with people, even when it is not being taught specifically.
- baa-baa-baa-baa
- I love hearing your voice and seeing you smile!
- Mama. Mama. Mama
- Around 12 months, babies will try imitating speech sounds and can typically say a few words; such as. Dada and Mama. Babies and toddlers who are exposed to more than one language can process what they are hearing and become fluent much more easily than adults can. "Baby talk" often seems to be a bit ahead of a child's developmental level verbally; but it often brings a child along. It helps a child, "sort out the meanings, sounds, and sentence patterns of his or her language."
- Mama has your food.
- At 18 months, children can say as many as 10 words. They recognize names of familiar people, objects, and body parts. As children continue to talk they may start using specific grammar rules they have understood (adding an 's' to something to make it plural), this can be evidence that I child is not just repeating but instead is understanding grammatical concepts.
- Mama, up!
- I would love to hold you.
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