What are the different stages of language development?

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Stages of Speech And Language Development Children with Normal Hearing Ages birth through five years old0-6 • Attends to facial expressions. • Makes sucking sounds. • Cries with varying pitch, length and duration. • Coos. • Responds to speech sounds by vocalizing. • Vocalizes to express joy and anger. • Responds and vocalizes to name. • Verbalizes "dada" and "mama" non-meaningfully. • Babbles "ba." 7-12• Produces consonants when babbling. • Babbles with inflection. • Displays understanding of specific words with gestures. • Babbles in response to human voice. • Says "dada" and "mama" meaningfully. • Babbles with definite inflection. • Begins single-word sentences. • Emerging expressive vocabulary 1-3 words. 1 3 - 1 8 • Says "no" meaningfully. • Labels 1-2 familiar objects. • Combines voice with gestures. • Spontaneous use of 10-15 words. • Vocalizes demands, names needed items. • Jabbers with rhythm during play. • Uses own name in reference to self. • Imitates two word phrases. • Begins singing songs with words. 19-24• Labels pictures. • Two-word sentences. • Uses nouns, verbs. • Shares experiences with jargon and words. • 65% of speech intelligible. • Uses three-word utterances. • Labels up to five pictures.• Answers questions. 25-30 • Uses plurals.• Refers to self with pronoun. • Frustrated if not understood. • Replaces jargon with sentences. • Vocalizes for all needs. • States full name. • Participates in storytelling. 31-36 • Recites familiar nursery rhymes. • Emergence of five-word sentences. • Relates experiences with short sentences.• Asks "W" questions: "what," "where," "why," "when". • Expressive vocabulary 800+. 37-42 • Expressive vocabulary 1000+. • Turn-taking in conversations beyond a few turns. • Verbs, "go", "do" are used meaningfully.• Multi phrase sentences begin to emerge. 43-48 • Initiates singing of familiar songs and nursery rhymes. • Uses words for feelings (happy, sad, etc.) • Uses prepositions: "over," "under," "above," "below." • Verbs such as "be" and "do" 49-54 • Expressive vocabulary 1500+. • Enjoys playing with words and word sounds. • Speaks in long sentences. • Verb and adjectives used in sentences. 56-60 • Expressive vocabulary 2000+.• Sustains a topic in conversation. • Possessives are used. "That's mine." "Here's yours." • Conversation much like adults. 1 =================================================================================================================