Speech & Language Milestones
The course of children's development is mapped using a chart of developmental milestones. These milestones are behaviors that emerge over time, forming the building blocks for growth and continued learning.
Speech & Language MilestonesDuring an assessment, these milestones are reviewed together to give a comprehensive review of a child's progress developmentally. Some of these categories reviewed could include:
Speech & Language
expressive & receptive abilities
By One Year
- Recognizes name
- Imitates familiar words
- Responds to familiar sounds and voices
- Between One to Two
- Understands "no"
- Waves good-bye and plays pat-a-cake
- Says "mama" and "dada"
- Makes the "sounds" of familiar animals
- Gives a toy when asked
- Uses words such as "more" to make wants known
- Points to his or her toes, eyes, and nose
- Brings object from another room when asked
By Two to Three
- Identifies body parts
- Carries on 'conversation' with self and dolls
- Asks "what's that?" And "where's my?"
- Uses 2-word negative phrases such as "no want".
- Gives first name, holds up fingers to tell age
- Combines nouns and verbs "mommy go"
- Tries to get adult attention: "see me"
- Likes to hear same story repeated
- May say "no" when means "yes"
- Tries to solves problems by talking instead of hitting or crying
- Answers "where" questions
- Names common pictures and things
- Uses short sentences like "me want more" or "me want cookie"
- Matches 3-4 colors, knows big and little
Four to Five
- Can tell a story
- Has a sentence length of 4-5 words
- Has a vocabulary of at least 500 words
- Names at least one color
- Understands "yesterday," "summer", "lunchtime", "tonight", "little-big"
- Begins to obey requests like "put the block under the chair"
- Knows his or her last name, name of street on which he/she lives and several nursery rhymes
Five to Six
- Has a sentence length of 5-6 words
- Has a vocabulary of at least 1000 words
- Defines objects by their use (you eat with a fork) and can tell what objects are made of
- Knows spatial relations like "on top", "behind", "far" and "near"
- Knows her address
- Identifies a penny, nickel and dime
- Knows common opposites like "big/little"
- Understands "same" and "different"
- Counts ten objects
- Asks questions for information
- Distinguished left and right hand in herself
- Uses all types of sentences, for example "let's go to the store after we eat"
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