Speech-language development can proceed more smoothly and smoothly in one child than in another child. But what is the ultimate age at which a child should be able to master certain basic speech-language skills? This article provides characteristics of the speech and language of a child between the ages of 5 months and 6 years. Signals to check whether there may be a developmental delay, an obstacle or perhaps a developmental disorder in speech-language development.
Speech-Language Development Checklist – Signs of Speech-Language Problems
Characteristics and skills in the area of speech-language development are listed below, followed by (a guideline for) the latest age at which a child should be able to master these skills. In other words, the question of whether or not the child’s developmental course in terms of speech and language is age-appropriate or at age level.
Speech – Language Development Delay – Developmental Speech and Language Disorder
Although every child develops at their own pace, there is a certain age at which a child should be able to master a certain skill. This is related to the normal, average developmental course of average (early) childhood development in the areas of speech and language.
- Developmental delay: We speak of a delay if a child deviates only slightly from the average.
- Developmental disorder: A disorder is when a child deviates greatly from the average, is very behind or is different from his or her peers.
Identifying Speech Language Problems
It should be expressly noted that this is not a diagnostic criteria or a causal model, but only a checklist for global screening and identifying characteristics in order to (early) identify any developmental problems.
Overview of Speech-Language Development – Speech Language Development Course
The overviews below regarding the developmental course in the speech-language area are suitable for use by parents, caregivers, group leaders, general practitioners, clinics, teachers, school doctors, etc. to identify any problems and raise the alarm in order to obtain help and guidance. call. There is a division into 5 signals – overviews with the associated characteristics/skills – which indicate when or at what age the phenomenon in question should no longer occur. Or put differently: if certain characteristics still occur or do not occur, this can be considered abnormal.
Age Inadequate Speech-Language Development – Impaired Developmental Progress
With regard to speech-language development, the following signals are a sign that the child’s development is not progressing undisturbed or at age level:
- Absent or disappearing babbling
- No imitation or imitation
- Does not name words, the word is not given a symbolic meaning
- Language rules are used differently
- Unintelligibility due to abnormal articulation
The above five signals are discussed in more detail in the overviews below, with maximum age limits.
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Babbling – Absent or Disappearing Babbling |
Ultimate Age |
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Does not respond when spoken to |
3 months |
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Sounds remain monotonous (mechanically) and come from deep in the throat |
6 months |
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Pleasure and displeasure are indistinguishable in the sounds the child makes |
7 months |
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Child does not recognize his/her own mother’s voice |
7 months |
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Cannot be calmed when he/she is crying by talking to him/her |
8 months |
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Doesn’t seem to listen to his own sounds, takes no pleasure in repeating himself |
9 months |
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Does not spontaneously use sound as a means of communication |
12 months |
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No Imitation or Imitation Speech Language |
Ultimate Age |
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Has no recognizable sentence melody |
12 months |
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Doesn’t listen to what is said |
16 months |
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There is sudden screaming and monotonous shouting |
18 months |
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Child does not understand what is being said |
24 months |
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Child does not repeat what is said |
24 months |
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Sounds remain unconscious repetitions of what the child has just heard (echolalia) |
2.5 years |
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Does not name words – Word is not given a Symbol meaning |
Ultimate Age |
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Child can imitate words, but does not use them (on his or her own). |
2 years |
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Pulls adults along to get something done, but does not say what they want |
2.5 years |
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Understands simple commands only by the gestures someone uses |
3 years |
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Deviant Use of Language Rules |
Ultimate Age |
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The meaning of what the child says is only clear from the situation in which it is said |
4 years |
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Does use words to name things, but places them randomly one after the other |
4 years |
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Don’t talk about yourself in the ‘I’ form |
4 years |
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Uses one plural construction for everything (cars, chairs, beds) |
4 years |
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No use or misuse of prepositions (in, next to, behind) and personal pronouns (I, he, you) |
5 years |
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Doesn’t make good use of the past tense |
5 years |
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Does not create compound sentences with ‘because’ and ‘because’ constructions |
6 years |
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Unintelligible due to abnormal articulation |
Ultimate Age |
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Child makes vowel changes (ie/oe, ee/ie) |
4 years |
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There is stuttering |
4.5 years |
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Can hardly distinguish sounds that sound alike; long-short (bone and boat, late and lat) |
5 years |
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Has difficulty with double consonants (drop, pale) |
6 years |
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