[Music] this video will help you understand the stages of baby talk from birth through the first 12 months we'll cover early speech milestones from initial sounds to those all-important much-awaited first words we're going to show but each stage sounds like and explain what's going on behind the scenes with babies hearing and understanding the foundations of good speech development it starts with phonation stage from birth to two months we hear vowels consonants Brody sounds all right they're also developing differentiated crying which has two-fold importance the first is it lets us know that babies know that they need to communicate different needs and the second is that it helps parents figure out what's going on with baby from birth baby is already paying attention and this is the foundation for the development of speech sound she's startling to loud noises he recognizes your voice he quiets and eventually smiles when you speak to him there are increases or decreases and sucking behavior in response to new and different sounds which is why it's so very important that you speak to your baby research tells us babies need to hear their first words about five hundred times before they say them [Music] from two to three months we have the goose days in addition to all the other sounds we start to hear the typical cooing and going yeah and we really want to hear these changes because it says to us that baby's hearing is okay and then he or she is starting to recognize the sounds of their language interestingly babies are born with the ability to say all the sounds in all the languages which is why it's so much easier to learn a foreign language when you're young and it's through hearing the specific sounds in their own language can you say hi design the app if they begin to shape their speech to that model from four to six months is the expansion stage babbling is starting to sound more speech like with many different sounds including P B and M they're laughing they're vocalizing their excitement and sometimes their displeasure we're howling trilling squealing speech is becoming a game as well as a way to communicate look babies are moving their eyes in the direction of sounds they're watching conversations they're noticing toys that make sounds and they're starting to listen to music with a different kind of purpose from seven to ten months is the canonical stage babbling has both long and short groups of sounds they're using non crying sounds to get and keep your attention this is when you'll see babies do things like cough and then if you notice they'll call again to keep getting your attention they use gestures to communicate and they're imitating many different speech sounds from seven months to a year they're enjoying games like peekaboo these are the games that teach the rhythm of conversation again you're really listening when you speak to them can you owe it to me and they're beginning to respond to simple requests where your elephant and they're recognizing words for common objects the variegated babble stage is the very last step for real words yeah from 11 to 12 months we're hearing very babbling gibberish that has the rhythms and patterns of speech in fact you'd almost think they were really talking often parents will say to us like he's speaking a foreign language it sounds so much like conversation finally around the very first birthday baby has one or two words although it might take a little while before the sounds are really clear every baby is different some will hit their milestones early some a little bit later others will be right on time sometimes when your baby is working on certain motor milestones there may be a few days when they're quieter than usual it's to be expected most importantly if you're concerned if your baby seems to be lagging behind you should talk to your pediatrician and ask whether we're referral to a speech pathologist would be a good idea in the meantime talk to your baby as much as you can [Music] you