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SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
24-30 Months
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- Children should be able to say certain sounds, but parents should not expect
perfection. Sounds are often substituted, such as "bacuum
for vacuum."
- Children should produce vowel sounds correctly.
- The following consonant sounds should be produced correctly: /m/, /f/,
/h/, /p/, /n/, /k/, /g/, /t/, /d/, and /w/.
- Speech is intelligible 50-60% of the time to people outside of the family even though sound errors may be present.
- A child's expressive vocabulary increases to about 300 words.
- A child understands about 400 words.
- A child should be producing 3 to 4-word sentences.
- A child should be following one-step commands.
- A child should be able to tell you his/her name on request. A child
should be beginning to understand number concepts like "one"
(Give me one block).
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SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
3 Years (36 Months)
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- A child understands 1,500 to 2,000 words and presents an expressive vocabulary of 1,000 words.
- A child understands long and complex sentences ("When we go to the store, we will buy ice cream for a snack.").
- A child uses past tense markers, pronouns, and plurals.
- A child asks LOTS of questions.
- Speech is intelligible approximately 75% of the time to people outside
the family even though there may be sound errors present.
- A child may have disfluencies (the repetition of sounds, syllables, words,
or phrases without great effort or the use of unnecessary sounds like "um" or "ah") in his/her speech. Some children do not go through this stage, but some do. If this happens, know that these disfluencies absent of struggle occur in the normal course of speech development. Please contact us and we'll be happy to give you suggestions on how to handle it the best way for you and your child.
- A child listens and can be reasoned with verbally.
- A child listens to longer and more varied stories.
- A child categorizes pictures of common objects, identifies colors, understands descriptive words, and makes inferences.
- Correct production of /l/ and /s/ should be emerging between 3 and 4 years of age.
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SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
4 Years
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- A child can recall events of yesterday.
- A child follows 3-step oral directions in sequence.
- A child comprehends Wh-questions.
- A child repeats nursery rhymes.
- A child repeats a 5-7 syllable sentence and 4 digits.
- A child can recall and state two simple facts in sentence form
immediately after hearing a simple story.
- A child presents speech that is intelligible 90% of the time to people outside the family even though misarticulations may be present in
his speech.
- Correct production of sh, ch, j, v, and z should be emerging.
- A child names objects as "same" or "different".
- A child understands and uses spatial concepts (prepositions).
- A child understands quantity concepts and can count to at least 5.
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SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
5-6 Years
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- A child has the ability to perform formal language operations and continues to expand on them.
- A child tries new words, can define age-appropriate vocabulary words, and formulate sentences with given words.
- A child seeks information through why, what, and how questions.
- A child is able to explain the rules of a game or activity to others.
- A child knows his/her address and telephone number.
- A child can identify money.
- A child distinguishes left/right himself/herself.
- A child understands time/sequence concepts.
- A child understands basic math operations.
- Correct productions of th and r sounds occur. Articulation development
is completed.
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Germantown
Speech and Hearing Clinic
2018 Exeter Road
Germantown, TN 38138
E-Mail: questions@speechlang.com |
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