Birth – 3 Months
Receptive Language Listens to sounds. It increases and decreases its absorption in response to sound. When spoken to, he responds by remaining silent or laughing. It recognizes your voice or becomes silent when it hears your voice crying. They can understand the emotional tone of voices and tend to move away from angry voices and approach friendly voices. Expressive Language Sound games and spontaneous sound production begin. It shows that he enjoys sound production. He makes sounds when he is happy. (cooing) Cries differently for different needs. He smiles when he sees people he knows. Responds to others' speech with voice.
4 Months - 6 Months Receptive Language Moves its eyes towards the source of the sound. It responds to changes in the tone of the voice. Notices toys that make noise. Pays attention to music. He smiles at those who talk to him. Distinguishes angry and friendly voices. He looks when his name is called.
Expressive Language Babbles consonant-vowel syllables. Imitates some speech sounds. He can change the intensity, pitch and speed of his voice. He shows his anger and joy vocally.
7 Months – 9 Months
Receptive Language Listens to/is interested in the conversations of himself and other people. It searches for sounds outside its field of vision, looks at its name, the phone recognizes the voices of others. Recognizes nasal/prosodic changes. He listens to some words he knows and begins to recognize new words. May react to his own name. Can respond appropriately to "No". Expressive Language Produces several consonant-vowel sounds in one breath. Imitates gestures and tone of voice of the adult. Imitates the stressed syllable. Uses gestures for social purposes. During this period, the baby combines sound production with hearing. Repeats selected heard sounds. The sounds it makes change towards syllable repetition and acquire more of the qualities of the surrounding language. There is frequent change in syllable repetition. Vowel-consonant combinations occur.
Rhythm is used in sound games.
Babies with hearing loss cannot experience the lalling period. Because their ears cannot hear these produced sounds. The absence of these developments in this period means that language problems, hearing loss, mental retardation and emotional deprivation occur during this period.
10 Months -12 Months Receptive Language Fulfills some orders. He knows his own name. Looks at the person or toy whose name is spoken.
Expressive Language Makes sounds to toys and to one's own image in the mirror. Imitates adult speech with the sounds in memory. Produces few words. Imitates the adult's hand waving.
13 months - 18 months Receptive Language Vocabulary may be between 5 and 20. It refers to the named toys, people and clothes. It refers to two body parts whose names are spoken. Answers the question "Where" with a sign. Shows the pictures whose names are mentioned. Expressive Language Imitates animal sounds. Names at least two objects. Uses at least 5 words spontaneously. Can use two morphemes.
19 Months – 24 Months Receptive Language Gives objects when requested. Points to several body parts when asked. Understands simple commands and questions (Throw the ball, where is the baby?). When the name of the object is spoken, it shows a picture from the book. Understands past and present. Understands the -de and -den forms of nouns. Expressive Language: Vocabulary, which is around 20 at 18 months, reaches 200 at 24 months. He calls himself by his name. Hums or sings a song. Can use past tense. He can use the -de and -den forms of nouns. He says more words every month. Can ask one or two word questions. They begin to make two-word sentences.
25 Months -30 Months Receptive Language Understands pronouns such as "I" and "you". Understands possessive adjectives such as “my” and “your”. Knows the names of friends or relatives. Can understand different sentence types. It distinguishes between boys and girls. Understands "what" and "who" questions. Expressive Language Says his/her name when asked. Sings songs or rhymes. Uses short sentences. Uses personal pronouns. -di li uses the past tense.
31 Months – 36 Months Receptive Language Perceives differences in meaning (big-small). Recognizes pictures related to daily life such as drinking, sleeping, eating. It can fulfill two requests one after the other. It distinguishes between “inside” and “outside”. Makes distinction between "many" and "little".
Expressive Language Uses some tense suffixes (-iyor,, -di,-mış). Plural uses the suffix. It uses the negative suffix. “What does it do?” / "Whatever you do?" Answers type questions. The average utterance length is around 4 morphemes. Continues short conversation.
3 Years - 4 Years Old Receptive Language Reacts to instructions containing two actions. Knows the functions of objects. There are 1200-2000 or more words in the receptive language repertoire. Can group objects. (toys, etc.) Expressive Language Talks about home, school or friends. People outside the family usually understand the child's speech. Makes complete sentences with subject and verb. Uses many sentences consisting of more than 4 words. Uses language to express emotions. It tells stories. It has a vocabulary of 800-1500 words.
4 Years - 5 Years Old Receptive Language Shows colors with signs. Knows shapes such as triangle and square. Pays attention to a short story and answers simple questions about the story. Understands most of what is said at home or at school. Understands the concept of time. (day and night) Expressive Language There are 1000-2000 or more words. He asks what the words mean. He asks a lot of questions. Uses complex sentences with lots of detail. He started asking "why" and "how" questions. He tells about his experiences at school, at home, and with his friends.
He communicates very easily with his friends and adults.
He uses the same grammar as other people in his family. Language and Speech Development in Children
5 Years - 6 Years Old Receptive Language Knows opposite concepts. He is interested in writing. It follows three-step instructions. Follows instructions given to a group. Expressive Language Asks questions to get information. It expresses emotions. Uses conjunctions. Lists the days of the week. He has acquired basic grammar knowledge.
6 Years - 7 Years Receptive Language Understands the concepts of right and left.
Complex definitions are more common. starts using it. There are approximately 20000 words in the receptive language dictionary.
Expressive Language Establishes sentences of approximately 6-7 words. Understands most concepts of time. Counts to 100 in a conditioned way. He tells the events in their order. It tells a story - introduction, development, conclusion.
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