Language

Lalling or cooing

• reflexive sounds babies make
• mainly vowel sounds
• throaty utterances

Babbling

• Combining consonant/vowel sounds
• Repetitive
• Combines different syllables
• practicing sounds of native language to later design words

Imitation

• first imitates self
• unconscious of first sounds
• eventually becomes conscious of sounds being made
• may imitate words with no meaning

Single Words

• Production of meaningful word
• has the same meaning with use
• beginning of expressive language!

Jargon

• practice conversational patterns of speech
• not understandable speech
• words may be present

Telegraphic Language

• using 2 or more word sentence
• conveys meaning with short phrases

Phrases, Sentences, Paragraphs

• Uses all words to produce thought
• Able to produce longer utterances that make sense
• Tells stories or conveys ideas

Expressive language is: words used to convey wants, needs, feelings, ideas