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1 Month
Responds to voices by quieting.
Cries for assistance. -
3 Months
Seems to recognize his mother's voice.
Responds vocally to speech of others by producing vowel sounds.
Cries differently for different needs.
Smiles when sees you. -
6 Months
Vocalizes pleasure and displeasure
Imitates some sounds.
Babbling sounds including: p, b and m .
Moves eyes in direction of sounds.
Responds to changes in the tone of your voice. -
8 Months
Listens to others speech and imitates tonal quality of adult speech.
Echoes adult speech.
Enjoys socials games such as peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake.
Turns and looks in the direction of sounds. -
1 Year
Responds to their name.
Uses gestures such as pointing and showing.
May speak one or more words although they may not be clear.
Follow simple requests with gestures ("Come here").
Recognizes words for common items like "cookie" and "shoe." -
15 Months
Communicates mainly using gestures and sounds.
Has a 4-6 word vocabulary ("bye-bye," "dada," "mama").
Plays in a solitary manner with a variety of toys like cars, stuffed animals, books, blocks and dolls. -
18 Months
Has a vocabulary of 10-20 words.
Begins to use two words together ("mommy shoe" meaning "mommy's shoe").
Produces more than 5 consonant sounds, like m, w, n, p, and b.
Points to some body parts when asked.
Follows simple commands ("Give me the ball").
Pretend play beginning. -
2 Years
Expressive vocabulary of 150-300 words.
Uses short incomplete sentences.
Uses many different consonant sounds in the beginning of words.
Puts many actions together during play like stirring, pouring, scooping, and feeding a doll.
Points to pictures in a book when named and listens to simple stories.
Learns a few new words each week.
Understands simple questions ("Where's your blanket?").
Uses pronouns: I and it. -
3 Years
900-1,000 word vocabulary.
Creates 2-3 word sentences to talk about and ask for things.
Uses simple sentence construction with subject-verb-object format (e.g., "mommy eat cookie").
Beginning to use negative words such as no, not, can't, and don't.
Beginning to use plural forms of often used nouns and possessive -'s.
Uses pronouns: me, my, mine, you, your, she, he, yours, and we.
Uses the prepositions in, on, and under.
Using -ing and -ed endings; ho -
4 Years
Asks lots of questions.
Most regular and irregular past tense verbs are used correctly.
Understands most questions but has difficulty answering "how" and "why."
Can retell stories and recent past events.
Uses the pronouns: they, us, hers, his, them, her, its, our, him, myself, ours, their, theirs, herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
Most 4-year-olds can produce the p, m, h, n, w, b, k, g, d, t, ng, f, and y sounds. -
5 Years
Vocabulary of over 2,000 words.
Can talk about feelings.
Follows 3-step commands.
Can play organized games with simple rules.
Most 5-year-olds can correctly produce the p, m, h, n, w, b, k, g, d, t, ng, f, y, r, l, s, ch, sh, z, j,and v sounds.
They may have difficulty producing consonant blends, as in strong and dress. -
6 Years
Able to define objects by function.
Uses all parts of speech to some degree.
Has well formed sentences of a complex nature.
Most 6-year-olds can correctly produce most English speech sounds, adding th and su (as in treasure). -
8 Years
Talks a lot.
Boasts, brags and verbalizes ideas and problems readily.
Most 8-year-olds can correctly produce most consonant clusters such as: str, sl and dr.
