Language Development In Children With Age

With age and experiences,understanding and cognition of the child improves. Gradually his language also improves. As child uses more and more of his cognitive skills and starts communicating and repeating language, child evolves more confident and his perception widen largerly.

We can divide the language development process into following various stages-

1. Prelinguistic Stage-

Prelinguistic stage is the primary stage of language development. This stage is for 13 to 14 months old child. In this stage,child cries,babbles and learns to express through gestures.

a) Crying- After birth, child knows only crying. This is a natural process and reflex action. Along with crying,certain body reactions also takes place like reddening of faec, increase in pulse rate,closing of fists,etc. 1 month old child cries differently for different reasons.

b)Cooing- The baby makes other sounds also other than crying. child makes different sounds while yawning,sneezing or when happy. 5-6 months old child turns his head towards the person who is talking to him.

c) Babbling- This is the type of  language interaction starts between parents and the child. Sounds like ma-ma,pa-pa,da-da child starts making and feels happy. Achild starts babbling in 5-6 months.

d) Gestures- Third stage is of using gesture. Babies start communicating with their face,legs,arms etc.

2. Linguistic Stage- 

From 9 to 10 months is duration to speak and to understand other language. The starting point is:

a) Comprehension- Comprehension is the ability to understand others language and gestures. The child is not able to speak but is able to understand what people say to a grat extent. 6 months old understands the meaning of 'NO' and stops immediately after hearing it.

b)Vocabulary-  Some specific words like flowers name, coins, colours name etc. child starts to learn Around 200-300 words, child is able to learn. Gradually,sentence making and of seven words with correct grammar they can speak well.