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Use Milestone One: Birth
Prefers infant-directed speech and has begun to attend to social partners
Ex: Baby Lola likes baby talk -
Form Milestone One: Birth
Discriminates language from different rhythmic classes, such as differentiating English from Japanese and producing reflexive sounds. -
Content Milestone One: 3 Months
Categorical Perception of Speech: By age 3 months Lola can distinguish the difference between cats and dogs -
Form Milestone Two: 2 months
A child starts to produce cooing and babbling along with distinguishing sounds of native language vs sounds of nonnative language. Ex: Baby Lola starts to babble and make cooing sounds. -
Use Milestone Two: 4 months
Recognizes their own name and fixes their gaze on a face.
EX: Baby Lola turns her head when her mom says her name and looks at her mom. -
Form Milestone Three: 4 Months
A child starts to produce vowel sounds, vowel glides, squeals, and growls along with distinguishing languages belonging to same rhythmic classes (Dutch vs English). Ex: Baby Lola will starts to squeal. -
Content Milestone Two: 6 Months
Joint Reference & Intention at 6 months.
Lola is now in Phase 2: Emergence & coordination of joint attention. Lola able to perform object-focused activities as well as shift attention between an object and person.
For example, when her mother reads a book to Lola, they are participating in communicative exchanges. Lola and her mother are both looking at the book together engaging in joint attention. -
Form Milestone Four: 6 Months
A child can discriminate between two allophones of the same phoneme and segment words from fluent speech. A child can use stress to locate boundaries of words in fluent speech and detect clausal units in fluent speech. -
Content Milestone Three: 9 Months
Recognition of Intentionality
When Lola's mother says “milk” and picks up the milk, meaning to the object has now been attached. Lola now knows that object is "milk".
Lolas Intentional communication begins to emerge around age 8–10 months -
Form Milestone Five: 8 Months
Child begins to babble (reduplicated and variegated). A child can also discriminate between native and nonnative stress patterns and phonotactic patterns. They will also pay attention to fine phonetic detail and use phonotactic cues to locate boundaries of words in fluent speech. Ex: Baby Lola starts saying ma-ma-ma or ma-dee-ba-go. -
Content Milestone Four: 10 Months
Imperative pointing as a form of requesting something is should be developing at 10 months.
Ex: Lola points at something that is out of reach that she wants her mom to bring to her. -
Use Milestone Three: 10 months
Uses imperative pointing and utters their first true word.
Ex: Baby Lola points with her finger to her mom and says "Mama" -
Form Milestone Six: 11 Months
A child will start to identify words in speech that do not follow conventional stress patterns of their native language, identify function words in utterances, will no longer discriminate between two allophones of the same phoneme, and will use jargon in babbling. Ex: Baby Lola will start combining words like "mama" or "baba" and carry a stress pattern similar to normal conversational speech. -
Use Milestone Four: 12 months
Uses referential gestures and uses line of regard, gestures voice direction, and body posture to infer intentions underlying other people's action
Ex: Lola points at a bottle of milk -
Form Milestone Seven: 12 months
Child's speech will be mostly unintelligible except for a few words and 50% of utterances will consist of single nouns. Ex: Baby Lola can say Mama or Dada but other words are unintelligible. -
Content Milestone: 12 months
At 12 months, Lola speaks her first word.
Ex: '"mama" -
Use Milestone Five: 16 months
Uses verbal turn-taking
EX: Lola and her dad are looking at a picture that has different types of animals on it. Dad says his favorite animal and then Lola says her favorite animal. -
Form Milestone Eight: 16 months
Child's can now pronounce 25% of words intelligibly, 33% of utterances consist of single nouns, and the child will use negation. MLU of 1.31. Ex: Baby Lola says "no". -
Form Milestone Nine: 20 months
The child will process spoken words in increments, has an MLU of 1.62, and begins to use -ing. Ex: Baby Lola could say "singing". -
Content Milestone: 20 Months
Lola can produce 50 words.
She is also learning 7-9 new words everyday.
She can use some verbs and adjectives.
Ex: "gray cat" -
Use Milestone Six: 24 months
Begins to use imaginative, heuristic, and informative language functions
EX: Lola has a plastic toy banana and she holds it up to her ear and says "Hello?" pretending it is a phone. -
Form Milestone Ten: 24 months
A child will start to ask words with a rising intonation as well as pronounce roughly 65% of words intelligibly. Will use two word combinations and use prepositions. The child's MLU is 1.92. Ex: Baby Lola will start to raise the pitch of her voice at the end of sentences such as ",is ,that 'mommy?" (primary stress markers noted) -
Content Milestone: 24 months
Lola can comprehend approximately 500 words and produces 200 words.
Ex: "Daddy wore a red hat today" -
Form Milestone Eleven: 28 months
A child can now pronounce 70% of words intelligibly and demonstrates phonological processes. Is in Brown's Stage III. Ex: Baby Lola goes "dah" instead of "dog" -
Use Milestone Seven: 32 months
Clarifies and requests clarification during conversations
EX: Lola's mom tells her and her brother to throw the lollipop wrapper in the trash. Then Lola asks her mom, "What is a wrapper?" -
Form Milestone Twelve: 34 months
A child will suppress most of the common phonological processes and pronounce about 80% of all words intelligibly. A child will start using contractions, and has an MLU of 2.85-3.16. Ex: Baby Lola properly says "shoe" instead of saying something like "choe" -
Content Milestone: 34 Months
Lola now comprehends 900 words, and can produce 500 words asks simple questions.
Ex: "Mommy where is daddy?" -
Form Milestone Thirteen: 36 Months
Begins to develop shallow phonological awareness abilities, as well as using four to five words in sentences and compound sentences using and. Ex: Baby Lola can say "I got milk and chocolate" -
Use Milestone Eight: 36 Months
Beings to engage in longer dialogues
EX: Lola goes back and forth with her father in a conversation and they go from one topic to the next appropriately -
Content Milestone: 36 Months
Content 36 Months:
continues to use fast mapping to learn, and begin to engage in slow mapping.
Ex: Lola asks her mom for a certain item. "Can I have the ball?" -
Form Milestone Fourteen: 40 Months
A child will continue to refine skills and use pronouns and adverbs of time consistently. -
Content Milestone: 40 months
Content 40 months:
Understands relational terms such as hard and soft
Esx: "The cat is soft." -
Form Milestone Fifteen: 44 Months
A child has mastered most consonants and will use past tense and contractions consistently. Ex: Baby Lola could say "yesterday". -
Use Milestone Nine: 44 Months
Understands indirect requests accompanied by nonverbal pointing
EX: Lola’s dad points to the vegetables on her plate and without her dad saying anything, Lola knows her dad wants her to eat them -
Content Milestone: 44 months
Content 44 months:
Uses syntactic information to narrow the possible meanings of new words.
ex: Lola’s mom tells her something is “dax“. Lola will "interpret hard to be a count noun, whereas children who hear “this is Dax” interpret Dax to be a proper name"(Turnbull, K. and Justice, L. 2020). -
Form Milestone Sixteen: 48 Months
A child will decrease use of phonological processes and combine four to seven words in a single sentence. A child will also use irregular third person verbs. Ex: Baby Lola could say "She has a dress". -
Use Milestone Ten: 52 Months
Uses indirect requests
EX: Lola asks her mom “Can I have that?” -
Content Milestone: 52 months
Content 52 months: Begins to use more questions that starts with "wh-".
Ex: “what do, what does, what did” questions. Lola will begin to ask "what is that?", "what does this do?". -
Form Milestone Seventeen: 54 Months
A child's speech should be very intelligible in connected speech as they have mastered almost all consonant sounds but not in every context. A child also uses subordination and coordination in sentences and irregular plural forms. -
Form Milestone Eighteen: 58 Months
A child will know the letters that make up their name and only show languishing difficulties with later-developing sounds. Also have some persisting phonological processes. Ex: Baby Lola will know the letters L, O, and A.