Stages of childhood

Events in Language Learning Development

  • Prenatal

    Prenatal
    Infants in the womb develop a familiarity with their mother's voice and sensitive to some outside sound like music.
  • 2 months

    2 months
    A baby begins to develop vowel noises and "babbles" imitating the language they hear.
  • 3-4 months

    3-4 months
    Infants and mothers tend to imitate each other which helps gain developmental skills in comprehending.
  • 4-6 months

    4-6 months
    The baby begins to comprehend commonly used words, play "peek-a-boo", and sometimes recognize their own name.
  • 8-12 months

    8-12 months
    The baby starts to point to objects conveying information to others, plays more turn-taking games, and begins to understand labeling objects with the help of a caregiver.
  • 12 months

    12 months
    Toddler continues to babble but they develop their language and accuracy/ speed of the speech increases fast. As well as their first word.
  • 18-24 months

    18-24 months
    Toddlers vocabulary expands to the max of 250 words, combines their words together, can learn up to two words a day.
  • 3-5 years

    3-5 years
    At this age, a child will begin to form longer sentences to communicate needs, wants, information learned, and anything else. that might happen and starts pre-school.
  • 6-8 years

    6-8 years
    The child at this age usually will be starting school so they will learn how to solve problems, communicating ideas, and read simple books for their age
  • 8-9 years

    8-9 years
    At this age, they will start to have a community of friends, read more, draw/ paint, have collection i.e. sea shells, understand time, months, days, and years.
  • 9-12 years

    9-12 years
    At this age, the child will create an even stronger community of friends, write more, read more, and develop more adult relationships