| 7 months - 1 year |
- Enjoys interactive games like peek-a-boo
- Turns and looks in direction of sounds
- Listens when spoken to
- Recognizes words for common items ("cup", "book", "car")
- Begins to respond to requests ("Want more?" or "Come here")
- Looks at you or looks with you at object
- Anticipates what will happen next
- Responds to name
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- Babbles long & short groups of syllables ("baba", "bibibi", "upup")
- Gets and keeps attention using speech & non-speech sounds (not crying)
- Uses gestures to communicate (waving, holding arms to be picked up)
- Imitates a variety of speech sounds
- Has one or two words around 12 months
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| 1 - 2 years |
- Responds when you say "no" half the time
- Points to several body parts when asked
- Follows simple commands & understands simple questions
- Listens to simple stories, songs, and rhymes
- Points to pictures in a book when named
- Understands 150-300 words
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- Holds out toy to ask for help
- Says more words every month
- Uses some one- or two- word questions ("What’s that? Where kitty?")
- Puts two words together
- Uses many different consonant sounds at beginning of words
- Uses 50-200 words
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| 2 - 3 years |
- Understands contrasting concepts (big/little, up/down, in/on)
- Follows two-step requests ("Get your shoe and put it on.")
- Listens to and enjoys hearing stories for longer periods of time
- Understands 500-600 words
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- Prefers using words to gesture
- Has a word for almost everything
- Uses two- or three- words to talk about and ask for things
- Uses m, b, p, w, h, and n sounds
- Speech is understood by familiar listeners most of the time
- Often asks for or directs attention to objects by naming them
- Asks why?
- Uses no and not
- Uses 200-1,000 words
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| 3 - 4 years |
- Hears you when you call from another room
- Understands words for some colors
- Understands words for some shapes, like circle and square
- Understands words for family (brother, sister, aunt, etc.)
- Understands describing words, such as empty, a lot, dirty, heavy, negatives (not)
- Understands 1,500-1,600 words
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- Uses f, k, g, t, and d sounds
- Talks about activities
- Uses about 4 sentences at a time
- Speech is understood by everyone
- Answers simple who/what/where questions
- Asks when and how
- Uses pronouns (I, you, me, we, they)
- Uses grammatical morphemes such as the verb tense -ing, prepositions in/on, possessive ‘s, and some plural words
- Uses 500-1,500 words
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| 4 -5 years |
- Understands sequencing (first, next, last)
- Understands words for time (yesterday, today, tomorrow)
- Follows longer directions ("Eat your food, clean up your dishes, then put on your pajamas.")
- Follows classroom directions
- Hears and understands most of what is said at home and school
- Understands 2,000-3,000 words
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- Says all speech sounds in words. May make some mistakes on sounds that are more difficult to say, such as: l, s, r, v, z ch, sh, th.
- Responds to "What did you say?"
- Names letters and numbers
- Uses sentences that have more than one action word, such as: jump, play, get. May make some mistakes.
- Tells a short story
- Can hold a conversation
- Appropriately changes speech depending on context and communicative partner (i.e. small child vs. adult)
- Uses 1,000-2,000 words
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| 6 years |
- Understands 20,000-24,000 words
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| 12 years |
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