The document outlines the key stages of speech and language development in children from birth to 3 years. It discusses how newborns can localize sounds and begin to recognize parents by 1-2 months. Between 3-6 months, babies start to hold eye contact, turn toward sounds, and engage in babbling. Between 9-12 months, babbling becomes more complex and babies begin following simple commands. Between 18 months and 2 years, children's vocabularies expand rapidly and they can speak in short phrases and identify family members.

1. SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMENT

2. STAGES OF LANGUAGE
ACQUISITION
Cooing - 0 to4 months
Babbling - 5 to12 months
One word utterance - 9 to 18 months
two word utterance -18 to 30 months
Basic adult structure - 3 to 4 years

3. NEWBORNS
They can localize a sound to their right
or left side
Shortly after being born and will turn
their head or look in the direction of a
sound
They can also begin to smile
spontaneously and in response to
someone by 1month
Infants learn to recognize their parents
by 1-2 months

4. BY 3 MONTHS
Baby should hold an eye
contact
They should turn there
head towards sound
They be quite or smile in
response to your voice
Other than crying they
make cooing sounds

5. BY 6 MONTHS
Baby begin to imitate
speech sounds
They make isolated
sounds with vowels
(BA,DA,GA,GOO etc)
They generally use
babbling to get
attention
Monosyllabic babbling

6. BY 9 MONTHS
 Polysyllabic babbling or
repeating vowels like
(BABABA , LALALA ,
MAMAMA)
 They generally add new
sounds when babbling and
looking at people and
familiar objects like (teddy ,
ball)
 Many infants can follow a
one step command with a
gesture
 For example: asking for an
object

7. BY 12MONTHS
 They use mama (or) dada to call
mom (or) dad
 Respond to simple directions
like: come here and go there
 They will be attentive to the
sounds
 Remember names of common
objects like (ball , dog etc)
 They use voice to relate to the
environment
 They repeat sounds that parents
make
 Startle in response to a loud
noise

8. 18 MONTHS
They identify body parts
Understand simple
words like YES and NO
They can include
phrases like ‘want milk’
and ‘more juice’
They can able to say the
simple names of family
members and pet
names

9. 2 TO 3YEARS
Ask two words questions
like ‘where`s daddy’
They should start
playing with other
children's and get
interacted
A vocabulary spurt
leading to 50 to 500
words occurs

10.  Before they start speaking firstly they start developing
their communication skills
They are two types
1. Receptive skills
2. Expressive skills
These both are developed by
watching and imitating their
parents

11. These both are equally important
during developmental stage
Its very important to respond when
baby cries or coos or even if they r
trying to communicate with you
This shows that you are
responding to them