RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE - Comprehension |
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE - Speaking |
Birth-3 Months
- Startles to loud sounds
- Quiets or smiles when spoken to
- Seems to recognize your voice and quiets if crying
- Increases or decreases sucking behavior in response to sound
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Birth-3 Months
- Makes pleasure sounds (cooing, gooing)
- Cries differently for different needs
- Smiles when sees you
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4-6 Months
- Moves eyes in direction of sounds
- Responds to changes in tone of your voice
- Notices toys that make sounds
- Pays attention to music
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4-6 Months
- Babbling sounds more speech-like with many different sounds, including p, b and m
- Chuckles and laughs
- Vocalizes excitement and displeasure
- Makes gurgling sounds when left alone and when playing with you
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7 Months-1 Year
- Enjoys games like peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake.
- Turns and looks in direction of sounds.
- Listens when spoken to
- Recognizes words for common items like "cup", "shoe", "book", or "juice"
- Begins to respond to requests (e.g. "Come here" or "Want more?")
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7 Months-1 Year
- Babbling has both long and short groups of sounds such as "tata upup bibibibi"
- Uses speech or non-crying sounds to get and keep attention
- Uses gestures to communication (waving, holding arms to be picked up)
- Imitates different speech sounds
- Has one or two words (hi, dog, dada, mama) around first birthday, although sounds may not be clear
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12-18 Months
- Points to a few body parts when asked.
- Understands a few early prepositions when asked.
- Understands words and directions associate with familiar routines..
- Follows simple commands and understands simple questions (“Give a kiss”, “Wave bye-bye”, "Roll the ball," "Kiss the baby," "Where's your shoe?").
- Listens to simple stories, songs, and rhymes.
- Points to pictures in a book when named.
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12-18 Months
- Begins to engage in “jargon” or unintelligible sentence-length utterances.
- Says 10 words on his own consisting mostly of nouns and names
- Normal range of vocabulary is between 15 and 50 words.
- Says more words than before.
- Begins to imitate two-word phrases & use a few familiar combinations on his own such as “more milk” or “bye-bye Dada”
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18-24 Months
- Understands up to 150-300 words
- Able to follow two-step commands
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18-24 Months
- Says more words every month.
- Typical vocabulary is 50+ words
- Uses some one- or two- word questions ("Where kitty?" "Go bye-bye?" "What's that?").
- Puts two words together ("more cookie," "no juice," "mommy book").
- Uses many different consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
- Refers to himself by name
- Speaks in 2-3 word phrases frequently
- Adds new words everyday (Some sources say 7-9 new words a day!)
- Is understood at least 25% of the time by parents
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2-2.5 years
- Comprehends 500 words
- Understands differences in meaning ("go-stop," "in-on," "big-little," "up-down").
- Understands size concepts and concept of one
- Follows two requests ("Get the book and put it on the table").
- Listens to and enjoys hearing stories up to 10 minutes
- Identifies Action Pictures (e.g., Show me “eating”, Show me “running”)
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2-2.5 years
- Says up to 200 words on his own.
- Uses two or three- words to talk about and ask for things.
- Consistently refers to self using a pronoun
- Speech is understood by familiar listeners most of the time.
- Often asks for or directs attention to objects by naming them.
- Answers simple what and where questions
- Starts to take more turns talking in early conversations
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2.5-3 years
- Comprehends 900 words
- Listens to stories up to 20 minutes
- Knows concepts such as; in, on, under, big, little.
- Matches colors
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2.5-3 years
- Uses 4-5 word sentences consistently with correct word order
- Uses 500 words
- Uses k, g, f, t, d, and n sounds.
- Names colors
- Answers simple who, what, where, how many questions
- Can ask simple questions
- Repeats sentence of 6-7 syllables
- Uses pronouns I, me, you, mine
- Displays effective conversational skills such asking and answering many kinds of questions
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3 - 3.5 years
- Comprehends 1200 words
- Knows in front of and behind
- Identifies circle and square
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3 - 3.5 years
- Knows in front of and behind
- Irregular plural forms emerging
- Regular plural forms are consistent
- Mean length of response is 4.3 words
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3.5 – 4 years
- Comprehends 1500-2000 words
- 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
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3.5 – 4 years
- Has a sentence length of 4-5 words
- Has a vocabulary of nearly 1000 words
- Can do simple analogies
- Tells two events in order of sequence
- Answers " what if " questions
- Possessive "s" consistent
- Mean length of response 4.4 words
- People outside of the family usually understand child's sechpe.
- Answers simple “who?”, “what?”,“where?”,and “why?”questions
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4– 4.5 years
- Pays attention to a short story and answers simple questions about them.
- Hears and understands most of what is said at home and in school.
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4– 4.5 years
- Has a vocabulary of nearly 1500 words
- Uses sentences that give lots of details ("The biggest peach is mine").
- Tells stories that stick to topic.
- Uses past tense correctly
- Communicates easily with other children and adults.
- Says most sounds correctly except a few like l, s, r, v, z, ch, sh, th
- Says rhyming words.
- Names some letters and numbers.
- Uses the same grammar as the rest of the family.
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4.5 - 5 years
- Comprehends 2500-2800 words
- Points to red, yellow, green, and blue on command
- Identifies triangles, circles, and squares
- Understands “In the morning”, “next”, “noontime”
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4.5 - 5 years
- Uses 1500-2000 words
- Answers simple "when" questions
- Mean length of response 5.7 words
- Combines five to eight words in sentences
- Tells long story accurately
- Counts 10 objects
- Can name first, middle, last
- Repeats days of week in sequence
- Can speak of imaginary conditions as “I hope”
- Asks many questions, asks “who?” and “why?”
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