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The first three years of life are critical for developing speech and language skills. During this time, children progress from recognizing sounds to babbling and understanding simple commands. Exposure to language-rich environments helps children learn communication patterns. Speech delays can occur if infants do not respond to sounds or babble by 4-6 months of age. Parents can help by maintaining eye contact, sharing attention and ideas, and exposing children to words they can imitate through age three.

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Ages Concepts 0-3 Months 4-6 Months 1-3 Years

The first three years of life are critical for developing speech and language skills. During this time, children progress from recognizing sounds to babbling and understanding simple commands. Exposure to language-rich environments helps children learn communication patterns. Speech delays can occur if infants do not respond to sounds or babble by 4-6 months of age. Parents can help by maintaining eye contact, sharing attention and ideas, and exposing children to words they can imitate through age three.

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Summary of aspect of development The first three years of a human’s life is the most crucial part for acquiring

ng speech and language skills. These


Discussed in chapter. periods are critical to absorbing language skills and patterns. During these years, children need to be exposed to
an environment rich with sound, sight and language from others. Children that are exposed to such things may
have delays in their speech and communication skills.

Ages
0-3 months 4-6 months 1-3 years
Concepts

Sound recognition and response Infants aged 0-3 months can already At this point, babies start to follow During the first three years, babies
recognize sounds. For example, a sound through their eye start to understand and follow
crying baby would tend to calm movements. They start to notice simple commands. They find it
down when he/she recognizes a things that make sound. Speech easier to use consonant sounds.
familiar sound, usually the mother’s. patters start to develop and may
start with sounds that begin with p,
m, b.

Communication and expression Since the baby cannot communicate Babblings start to occur as the child Mostly uses words that are
patterns through words yet, the baby tries to express or communicate. understandable by family members.
communicates in a different way e.g Understands commands,
smiling, crying. instructions and can answer WHY
questions.
Speech delays/challenges A child at this point should be able At 4-6 months, children should In these years, children should be
to recognize or hear sounds. When easily recognize sounds and react to able to imitate a few words
a baby does not respond or does them. One symptom of speech (even to a few simple sentences for
not coo, there must be some delays is when the child is not able 3 years up), especially words like
problem in his/her hearing which babble and follow through the mama, mom, dada, dad. Failure to
may result to serious speech delays sound she/he hears. utter simple words at this stage may
or challenges. be a sign of speech delays.

Improving children’s language Parents should exercise eye to eye Parents should strive to share Children should be free to express
(speech and communication skills) contact or facial gaze with their attention, interest and ideas no frustration, anger, happiness, and
children as early as this stage. matter how simple they could be. other emotions in order for them to
Use of objects to grab children’s practice communication in any way
attention should be employed. they can. They should be exposed to
words they can readily imitate as
well as gestures and sounds.

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