verbal development

[Faye Tarzwell]

hi,

i am new here but have been posting on mkb and mkp for a while now.
my dd will be 6 months tomorrow and i have some questions about verbal
development in infants.
when do babies start babbling with consonants - ba-ba, da-da, etc - ?
when do they start answering to their names?

thanks in advance,

fayec - nak'ing - sorry for the lack of caps...

[H Schinske]

wrote:

>my dd will be 6 months tomorrow and i have some questions about verbal
>development in infants.
>when do babies start babbling with consonants - ba-ba, da-da, etc - ?
>when do they start answering to their names?

There's a chart here:
http://www.asha.org/speech/development/child_hear_talk.cfm . It doesn't mention
answering to one's name -- my guess (which is just a guess, I have no education
in this area beyond reading baby books and such) is that babies probably can
recognize their names before they really have the skills together to show that
they do. At any rate they would surely know their names by the age that they
can follow simple verbal commands, seems to me.

--Helen

[Robyn Kozierok]

In article >,
Faye Tarzwell > wrote:
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>fayec - nak'ing - sorry for the lack of caps...
>


You know I've seen people sign off like this before but I never figured
out what it meant until you gave me the above context :)

--Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)

[Robyn Kozierok]

In article >,
Faye Tarzwell > wrote:
>hi,
>
>i am new here but have been posting on mkb and mkp for a while now.
>my dd will be 6 months tomorrow and i have some questions about verbal
>development in infants.
>when do babies start babbling with consonants - ba-ba, da-da, etc - ?

For anecdotal evidence, my first babbled da-da-da on his 5-month
birthday. My third did it a couple of days after his 7-month
birthday. My second was in between. All boys, fwiw. Their overall
expressive language development followed this pattern, perhaps
coincidentally: the first was the earliest, the second a bit later, and
the third the latest. However, at 2.5yo even the last is now at or
above average, though he lagged a lot up until just a couple of months
ago.

I don't have any records on when any of them started responding to
their names. It can be kind of hard to tell. (Try saying something
else in the same tone as you usually use for her name, and see if
she responds the same way....)


--Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)

[Ann Porter]

"Robyn Kozierok" > wrote in message
...

> For anecdotal evidence, my first babbled da-da-da on his 5-month
> birthday. My third did it a couple of days after his 7-month
> birthday. My second was in between. All boys, fwiw. Their overall

Mark recited Hamlet's soliloquy when he was nine months old.

Tee hee.

Best,
Ann

[Robyn Kozierok]

In article >,
Ann Porter > wrote:
>"Robyn Kozierok" > wrote in message
...
>
>> For anecdotal evidence, my first babbled da-da-da on his 5-month
>> birthday. My third did it a couple of days after his 7-month
>> birthday. My second was in between. All boys, fwiw. Their overall
>
>Mark recited Hamlet's soliloquy when he was nine months old.
>
>Tee hee.

I didn't hear anyone ask when babies usually start reciting
soliloquies. :-P

--Robyn

[Karen G]

You may start hearing the consonants and such any time. I think the
main babbling my girls did was "ungee" when they were excited until
about 8 months. My son is 10 months and he is making the consonants
with some compexity in variety. I think his first word is "more." He
yells "mo, mo" at meals when he is waiting for a bite of food.

Language delvelopment varies a lot though. Our first daughter was a
very late talker. I made her a word book using pictures of all of the
things around our house that she interacted with. I put the word that
we wanted to use for the object on the picture and put them all in a
little one page per photo album. She learned a lot going through it and
it helped us when we had visitors to have them in the book too.

Karen