Typical child will speaking his/her "First word" by the age of 12-14 months."First word" need to be a meaningful word. For an example if the child say "mom" for all the females we can't consider it as a meaningful word.Child must say "mom" only for his/her mother.
Most of the children follows a common pattern in development. We cab divide it in to 4 section.Under each section there are subsection few of those section can be present or not.Parents must be aware of there child is following this.
Stages of Development
1. Prelinguistic (0 - 1 years) During this
• Reflexive vocalizations
• Cooing
• Vocal play
• Babbling (sounds Like Ba,Pa)
Prelinguistic helps the child to speak the 1st word,also help the child to develop the oral-motor skills. In this stage child will make some meaningless sounds when they hear there own sound they keep trying to make new sounds.
If that child having a hearing loss they will stop cooing so parents need beware of the child's communication skills and changes.
2. First Words (1
- 1.6)
- Whole-word strategy
- Unanalyzed "wholes"
First meaningful word (Eg: Only for the mother child should say 'Mom' then it become a meaningful word, some kids use to call mom for other female in that case we can't consider "Mom" as a meaningful word) will achieve in this stage.
- 50 word vocabulary
When your child achieve his/her first word since then they will learn new words continuously. At the age of 3.5-4 years they should have a vocabulary of 2000.
4. Stabilization
- Acquisition of later sounds
Not all the sound achieve suddenly it's a process,few sounds will learn at the age of 6 years.You can find out in this link https://dishanlk1.blogspot.com/2015/07/speech-sound-development-chart-today-we.html
If your child is unable or late ,to meeting above milestones better to consult a Speech language pathologist.
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