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Originally posted by Stormymystic:
wow, I just figured out my 3 year old is really smart [img]smile.gif[/img] never payed attention to this before, but she has been talking, since she was 17 months, and has gotten to the point that you can actually have a convo with her,
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Um, not to rain on your parade, Stormy, but most kids start speaking at 12 months old, having a spoken vocabulary of about 6 words, and understanding 70 or more. If you're not reading to your child on a daily basis by the time they're 12 months old, you're doing them a disservice.
By age 2, most children can understand pretty much every mundane thing you say ( though they're a bit hazy on philosophy
), have a spoken vocabulary of about 100 - 200 words, and start learning more words at a rate of 8 - 10 every single day for the next few years. Most 2 year olds can make 5 word sentences, and 6 isn't out of the question.
By age 3, most kids have a spoken vocabulary of over 300 words, can understand many, many more (thousands?), and are able to carry conversations intelligible by strangers at least 50% of the time. Occasionally by age 3, a child will have learned how to construct multi-clause sentences, even.
By the time she's 4, look for her to be putting together 8 or 9 word sentences, having a vocabulary of about 1,500 - 2,000 spoken words, and holding conversations where she discusses dreams, fantasies, and things that haven't actually happened - abstract ideas. If she does this, she'll be right on schedule [img]smile.gif[/img]
This is a rough guide. Every child will go at their own speed, but it sounds like she's developing perfectly normally, which is obviously a good thing [img]smile.gif[/img]
In language acquisition, in terms of the developmental stages of children, there are no hard and fast rules about who should have learned what by when. Some children have been known to leave starting to speak as late as 2 years old! It doesn't mean they're dumb, and it doesn't handicap them in later life. Each child just develops at their own pace. What these rough guides *are* useful for is picking up underlying problems. Partial deafness is often first diagnosed through a child not learning language as rapidly as should be expected.
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