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Birth-5 months
At this age, a typical child will:
- Vocalize pleasure and displeasure sounds (laughs, giggles, cries, or fusses)
- Make noise when talked to -
6-11 months
At this age a typical child will:
- Babble (say "ba-ba-ba" or "ma-ma-ma")
- Understand "no-no"
- Try to communicate by actions or gestures
- Try to repeat your sounds -
12-17 months
At this age a typical child will:
- Follow simple instructions accompanied by gestures
- Answer simple questions nonverbally
- Point to objects, pictures, and family members
- Say 2-3 words to label a person or object (pronunciation may not be clear)
- Try to imitate simple words -
18-23 Months
At this age a typical child will:
- Follow simple commands without gestures
- Point to simple body parts such as "nose"
- Understand simple verbs such as "eat","sleep"
- Correctly pronounces most vowels and n, m, p, h, especially in the beginning of syllables and short words. Also begins to use other speech sounds
- Ask for common foods by name
- Make animal sounds such as "moo"
- Have a vocabulary of approximately 5-20 words
- Begin to use pronouns such as "mine" -
2-3 Years
At this age a typical child will:
- Have a vocabulary of approximately 150-300 words
- Know some spatial concepts such as "in, on"
- Answer simple questions
- Speak in 2 or 3 word phrases
- Use question inflection to ask for something (e.g., "My ball?" -
3-4 Years
At this age a typical child will:
- Identify colors
- Group objects such as foods, objects, etc.
- Use verbs that end in "ing", such as "walking", "talking"
- Repeat sentences
- Have a vocabulary of approximately 900-1000 words (at the age 3) -
5 Years
At this age a typical child will:
- Understand time sequences
- Understand rhyming
- Be able to define common objects
- Know their age
- Use long sentences
- Use imagination to create stories -
