Speech and Language Milestones for babies

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Speech and Language Milestones for babies

• A checklist of milestones for the normal
  development of speech and language skills in
  children from birth to 5 years of age is included
  below. These milestones help doctors and other
  health professionals determine if a child is on
  track or if he or she may need extra help.
• Children develop from being totally dependent
  newborns to independent individuals by the
  acquisition of skills
• Range of normality in the acquisition of skills
• Development follows an orderly process in a
  cephalic to caudal direction

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Definitions

• Speech -Speech is talking, which is one way to
  express
• language. It involves the precisely coordinated
• muscle actions of the tongue, lips, jaw, and
  vocal
• tract to produce the recognizable sounds that
• make up language.
• Language-Language is a set of shared rules that
  allow
• people to express their ideas in a meaningful
  way.
• Language may be expressed verbally or by writing,
• signing, or making other gestures, such as eye
• blinking or mouth movements

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Speech Development

• Your childs speech sounds will develop as he
  grows. A baby makes early vocalizations around
  two or three months, babbles around 6 months and
  uses jargon from about 18 months to 30 months.
• The act of expressing or describing thoughts
  ,feelings,or perceptions by the articulation of
  word.

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Language Development

• 4 to 8 months
• Babbling begins
• Some consonant sounds can be heard
• 8 to 12 months
• First word approximations (e.g. dada for daddy)
• Non-verbal communication
• Jargon (i.e. unintelligible speech) still present
• 1 to 2 years
• 10-15 words at 18 months
• 40-50 words at 24 months
• Uses mostly nouns and pronoun me/mine.

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Developmental Milestones

• 4 fields with a sequence of development
• Gross Motor - the development of locomotion
• Vision and fine manipulation - the development of
  eye-hand control
• Hearing speech - the devt. of language
• Personal social - integration of acquired
  abilities to reflect understanding of env.

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Routine Child Surveillance

• Newborn
• Supine (6-8wks)
• Sitting (6-9 mths)
• Mobile toddler (18-24mths)
• Communicating child (3-4yrs)

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Developmental Warning Signs - at any age

• FHx of note eg Hearing loss, cataracts
• Maternal concern
• Persistent primitive reflexes
• Persistent squint
• Discordance in developmental abilities in
  different areas
• Regression of previously acquired skills

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