Let’s Talk About Language Development: Birth to 1 year

Every child meets their milestones at their own pace, some earlier or later than others. However, if your child’s communication milestones are falling behind it is important to see a Speech-Language Pathologist. Below is a breakdown of these unique language developments.

Birth To One Month:

• Speech-like sounds are rare and most vocalizations are reflexive, such as burping, coughing, and crying.

Two To Four Months:

• Making sounds back and forth
• Emergence of cooing, which can sound like “ooooo” and “ahhh”

Four To Six Months:

• Expansion begins, more giggling and laughing
• Growls, squeals, yells
• Consonant-Vowel combinations may be produced (uuummm, daaaa)

Six To Eight Months:

• Reduplicated babbling begins: strings of repeated consonant-vowels produced (mamama, dadada)

Eight Months To One Year:

• Variegated babbling or non-reduplicated babbling begins (ma-da, ba-ma)
• Adult like syllables in consonant-vowel sequence (mama, dada, hi)
• Copies and imitates sounds

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Resources:
Communication milestones: Birth to 1 year. ASHA.
https://www.asha.org/public/developmental-milestones/co mmunication-milestones-birth-to-1-year/