Birth to Three Years Language Intervention

physiological flexion

super tight position, curled up like in mother’s womb

• oral cavity compressed

• top heavy

• neck → chest

• nose breathers (very hyper nasal)

• shorter and quieter sounds because respiratory area is contained

newborn language

• phonation(sounds) only occurs with movement of body on exhalation

• smiling and sucking are reflexive

• cry and whimper

• sneeze, grunt and yawn

• vocalizations of sighs and coos

• monocular vision

language 1-3 months

• smile is not reflexive

• they move off gravity (pushing into ground through shoulders → impacts tongue and mouth

• more lip mobility and rib cage opening up

  • allow for louder sound

  • neutral vowels and velars

• mouthing objects of different textures help the explore mouth and sound development

• start responding to sound

  • looks at speaker

• seeking out adults

  • through eye contact

  • and crying to get attention

• different cues for different needs (language develops through responses of their cries)

language 4-5 months

• elongated and getting more diagonal

  • opening rib cage up even more

• more babbling b/c tongue and lip movements due to opening up

  • helps them learn conversational turns/cues

• can discriminate between angry and friendly voices

• smiles at self in mirror

• bangs objects in play and mouths on them

• recognizes name

• localize sound source

• takes turns vocalizing

• learning consonant vowel sounds through new body movement

language of 6 months

• makes sound alone or with peers

• begins producing consonants with front and back of tongue

• learn pressure for bilabials from raspberries

• takes initiative vocalizing

• vocalizes words like daddy, mommy

• responds to negatoive commands

• more facial expression

language 7-8 months

• begin to crawl and creep

• waves hi and bye

• produces dipthongs

• canonical babbling present

• turn head to sound when source is not visible

• stops activty when name is called

• loves music, singing and picture books

• exchange gestures with an adult

• receptive vocab further expands

language 9-10 months

• follow simple commands with gestures

• stops activity to “no”

• follow commands to “come here” and “give me”

• resists removal of a toy

• variegated babbling

• may speak first word

• pitch changing

• imitates speech sounds in their repertoire

• short exclamations like “ooh” or “uk oh”

language 11-12 months

• indicates wants by pointing or gestures

• jargon

• vocalizes to call others

• understands simple questions and commands

language 13-14 months

• begins to walk wihic makes makes them hold breath and clench teeth → can’t talk

• Interact with environments (makes animal and environment sounds)

• shakes head “no” with meaning

• initiating turn taking during play and vocalization

• share attention

• terminate activities

• imitation development

• imitate speech sound patterns

language 15-17 months

• imitates words overheard in conversation

• increased vocalizing with increased activity level

• approximately uses 10-15 words to communicate

• ask questions with inflection

• follow 2 step directions

• uses “more”

• plays with toy in more than one way

language 18-21 months

• use words to interact and engage in turn taking with others

• leads caregiver to desired object

• identifies 6 body parts

• follow one step commands with ni gestures

• uses 15-100 words to communicate

• MLU between 1.31 - 1.62

language 21-23 months

• uses 20 -300 words to communicate

• uses personal pronouns

• asks for food or liquid

• 25% speech intelligible

• occasionally put two words together

• gestures to request action

• pretend play with objects

• begins to vocalize back and forth with words to others

• MLU 1.5-1.63

• identify objects i field of 5