AGE |
SPEECH |
LANGUAGE |
By 6 Months |
- Cooing, gurgling
- Babbling "papapapa"
- making noise when you are not in the room.
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- Localizes to sound
- Understands some common single words (cup, spoon, blanket, etc.)
- Recognizes different voices
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By 12 Months |
- Begins to approximate single words e.g. "mama", "coocoo" with intention
- Initiates sounds
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- Understands familiar words (e.g., "Juice")
- Can respond to simple request or questions (e.g., "All Done?")
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By 18 Months |
- Produces mostly unintelligible utterances
- Omits final sounds of words e.g., "ha" for "hat"
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- Uses gestures with language.
- Vocabulary of approximately 20 words
- Identifies some body parts
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By 24 Months |
- 50% intelligible
- Varies intonation to ask questions
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- Understands approx. 300 words; Expresses approx. 100 words
- Combines 2 words e.g., "mamma eat"
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By 3 Years |
- 75% intelligible
- Omits middle sounds of longer words
- Can produce most sounds
- Uses all initial and final consonants in words
- May make sound substitutions
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- Understands 500-1000 words.
- Can understand 2 step directions
- Begins use ofva variety of grammatical forms (e.g. "Mommy’s" "I," "He," "She," "is,")
- Asks questions using "Wh- words" (e.g., "What is that?")
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