What is the basic outline of childrens communication skills friom 0-16 years?
Okay, here’s a rudimentary guide: First 10 months: This is called the pre-linguistic phase and, as the name implies, is a stage in which the child does not really use ‘language’ as we know it, but sounds. Month 10: Child begins to make sounds familiar to its native language. It is still not using words, but as this age, it is certainly possible to distinguish, based on recordings, which country a baby comes from (it will take the child several years to learn all the sounds of its native language). 12 – 18 months: This is the one-word stage. Children normally produce their first words between 09 and 16 months (the average is 12). 18 months: A child will now gradually move from using one-word sentences, to binding two words together with increasing frequency. 30 months: Often called the period of ‘telegraphic’ speech, the child’s abiltiy to communicate increase, but becomes like a telegraph, with as much information as possible communicated in the crudest possible way. The child also dev
