Statistics on Child Speech

  • I am looking for statistics at what age children begin to speak a little


  • Hello. "By 14 months most children have said their first word (bye-bye, mama, baba, blankie). Between the ages of approximately 12 and 24 months, the toddler delights his parents by labeling and describing his environment (nana, juice, doggie, up, more, gone, push), revealing the growing vocabulary he has been working hard to acquire. This single-word vocabulary gives rise to word combinations by 18 to 24 months (more juice, doggie gone) and phrases (me all finish, dat my car) a little later. By age three, with seemingly little conscious effort or instruction, most children will be beginning to speak in multi-word phrases or even complete sentences... This is how speech and language skills develop for ninety percent of young children." source: A Parent?s Guide to Children?s Speech HTML cache by Google: http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:HQO_dtojrEAJ:www.caslpa.ca/PDF/a%2520parent%2520guide%2520to%2520children%27s%2520speech.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Or PDF version: http://www.caslpa.ca/PDF/a%20parent%20guide%20to%20children's%20speech.pdf (The document is in PDF format, so the Adobe Acrobat Reader is required. If you don't have that, visit: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html ) "By six months of age, an infant usually babbles or produces repetitive syllables such as "ba, ba, ba" or "da, da, da." Babbling soon turns into a type of nonsense speech (jargon) that often has the tone and cadence of human speech but does not contain real words. By the end of their first year, most children have mastered the ability to say a few simple words... By eighteen months of age, most children can say eight to ten words. By age two, most are putting words together in crude sentences such as "more milk." During this period, children rapidly learn that words symbolize or represent objects, actions, and thoughts. At this age they also engage in representational or pretend play. At ages three, four, and five, a child's vocabulary rapidly increases, and he or she begins to master the rules of language." source: Speech and Language: Developmental Milestones, from nih.gov: http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/speechandlanguage.asp Also see: "Can Two Year Olds Talk?" from harvard.edu: http://pcs.mgh.harvard.edu/heal_lang_art1.htm "Speech and language development from birth to age five," from partnershipforlearning.org: http://www.partnershipforlearning.org/article.asp?ArticleID=1592 "Speech & language development (from 12 to 24 months)" http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/factsheets/misc/speech_development_1_2/ "Communication and Your 1-2 Year Old," from the American Medical Association http://www.medem.com/MedLB/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZ7P5QP1AC&sub_cat=108 ----------- search strategy: "first words," months, "most children" I hope this helps.


  • I notice some problems with the URLs for the Parent?s Guide to Children?s Speech mentioned at the beginning of my answer: Use this one for Google's HTML cache: http://snipurl.com/3epu Or this one for the PDF: http://snipurl.com/3epv







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