Item 2 Timeline of First Language Acquisition
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6 Months
•Vocalizeswords with...
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Item 2 Timeline of First Language Acquisition
Child Development Institute, LLC.
(n.
d.
).
Language development in children.
Retrieved from http://www.
childdevelopmentinfo.
com/development/
language_development.
shtml
6 Months
•Vocalizeswords with intonation
•Respondsto spoken name
•Respondsto human voices (even those without visual cues)
•Respondswith appropriate action to friendly or angry voice
tones
12 Months
•Practicesinflectionwhile speaking
•and uses at least one or two words that hasve
•Is aware that speech has a socail value
•Able to understands simple instructions,especiallywith
vocal/physicalcues
18 Months
•Vocabularyhas grown to about 5-20 words
•Mostly nouns
•Many words are just jargon that is emotionally based
•Can follow simple commands
•Will repeat words or phrases over and over (echolalia)
24 Months
•A few objects in common surroundingscan be named
•Can use a few prepositoinsand pronouns, along with the
words "my" and "mine".
•Responsto commands & utters simple nou
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