week 3 Language Development

The stages of language development are universal among humans.  Thus, language development in an individual child must be compared with norms rather than with other individual children. Receptive language development (the ability to comprehend language) usually develops faster than expressive language (the ability to communicate). Two different styles of language development are recognized. In expressive language development, children first speak in long unintelligible babbles that mimic the cadence and rhythm of speech. Most children use a combination of these style