Children's phonological development.

Have to remember every child is different which means speech will develop at different stages.

 

 

 The table suggests that children develop two consonant sounds together a lot later than a consonant sound on its own. From the transcripts I have looked at from both Evie and Zach they do find it a lot harder to pronounce words like ‘through’ correctly, however it will be interesting to know at what age they do correctly pronounce it to see if it reflects the table.

At about 4-6 months a child may begin to start trying to create certain sounds mainly consonants and start experimenting with their tone of voice from growls to squeaks.

8 months the child may start to use their tone of voice to mean different things and they start babbling and using certain sounds together.

When the child reaches about 18 months old it should have a vocabulary of between 50-100 words which will most likely be words they are used to and from their common surroundings and things they are familiar with.

At 2 the child should be able to pair words together eg: ‘mummy chair’. Also asks a lot of questions ‘why mummy’. From the table we can see that by three the harder sounds of ‘g’ and ‘k’ are used which suggests at this stage the child will be experimenting in trying to create the sound. They are probably harder for the child as it uses muscles they may not have developed well enough in the mouth.

Doing certain tasks with children can encourage them to speak and introduces them to adult language.

At 3 the child is starting to use sentences and starts understanding and using pronouns such as ‘they’ starting to use tenses and plurals even if they are wrong ‘swimmed’ ‘sheeps’ they understand the basic rule.

Between 4-5 children can talk in more sentences and speak of events that have happened to them and their friends from school/pre-school. They are starting to use harder sounds in their language such as ‘pl’ ‘st’.

About 6 children stop clipping verbs such as ‘running’ as they manage to develop the ‘ng’ sound. Children tend to clip the verb to ‘runnin’ as they have managed to create the ‘ng’ sound. This could be because the muscles are still developing and strengthening in their jaw and tongue.

The ‘th’ is one of the last for a child to pronounce correctly at about 7 years old.

If children can’t pronounce the sound properly they may substitute in a sound that they can pronounce eg ‘pish instead of fish’ because the ‘f’ sound is normally developed later then the ‘p’ sound.

http://www.kidshealth.org.nz/speech-sound-development
http://www.home-speech-home.com/baby-speech-development.html
http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a6573/developmental-milestones-talking
http://www.asha.org/slp/schools/prof-consult/norms/
http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/12.htm
http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/23.htm
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/behaviour_development/a435354-speech-development-the-th-sound
http://www.speaklistenplay.com/2013/01/speech-sound-development.html