Ryv'r Giovanni - Toddler Milestones

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  • Form - 15 months

    50% of all utterances consist of single nouns: This means that when the child speaks, 50% of their speech is single nouns. Axl often yells, “Milk! Milk! Milk!” 16 months: Pronounces about 25% of all words intelligibly: This means that of the words the child tries to use, 25% are intelligible.

  • Form - 17 months

    Uses negation: The child says no. Axl, like many toddlers, really enjoys yelling “NO!” whenever possible.

  • Content - 17 months

    Uses 5 words: The child can produce these words with clear intention, following adult pronunciation, and with consistent usage in correct situations. Axl often says cat, mommy, daddy, more, and no.

  • Use - 19 months

    Uses gesture-word combinations: This means the child will say a word and use gesture to go along with it. When Axl is hungry, heʼll say “foo!” And bring his hand up to his mouth to simulate eating.

  • Form - 20 months

    Has an MLU of approximately 1.62: This means that the child uses approximately 1.6 morphemes for every utterance. Axl is starting to use some two word sentences such as, “Want juice!” and mixes them in with his one word phrases

  • Content - 20 months

    Produces about 50 words: This means the child can produce words with clear intention, following adult pronunciation, and with consistent usage in correct situations. Axl often says many words, ranging from names of people in his life, colors, and more.

  • Form - 22 months

    Asks questions with rising intonation: This means the child marks questions by raising their voice at the end in the same way adults do. Axl looked at his dad while they were at the store and asked, “Candy?”

  • Content - 22 months

    Uses some verbs and adjectives: This means the child uses action words and descriptors. Axl can now tell his family when he “wants eat”, “jump jump jump!”, or “go fast!”.

  • Form - 23 months

    Starts to use grammatical morphemes: This means the child begins to change words to have tenses, such as -ing, or -ed. When asked what he did at his grandmaas house, Axl replied “Played.”

  • Form - 24 months

    Is in Brownʼs Stage II: This means that the child uses two element sentences, typically noun-verb combinations. Axl likes dogs and when he sees them while out with his family, will say, “Look doggy!”

  • Content - 25 months

    Comprehends about 500 words: This means the child understands around 500 words, however this doesnʼt mean that the child is capable of saying the words.

  • Use - 25 months

    Begins to use imaginative language: this means the child can now pretend and imagine things. Axl now pretends to be a superhero and “go fly” around the room.

  • Form - 26 months

    Uses plural morpheme: This means the child knows to add -s to the end of words to denote multiple of an item. Axl now calls his two pet cats “cats” instead of “cat”

  • Form - 28 months

    Demonstrates phonological processes: This means the child makes errors in their speech in an effort to simplify their speech. Axl uses cluster reduction to ask for “ice keam”.

  • Content - 28 months

    Attends to sentence structure when interpreting new words: This means the child can learn new words simply by paying attention to sentence structure and knowing what kind of word to listen for. Axlʼs mom asked if he wanted the marshmallow, Axl had never had a marshmallow before but he already knew what everything else he could see was so he grabbed the puffy white cylinder.

  • Use - 16 months

    Uses verbal turn taking: this means the child allows other people to talk during conversation. Axl only uses a few words and mostly babbling, but he takes turns with his babbling when he plays with his mom.

  • Form - 29 months

    Uses present progressive morpheme with mastery: This means the child uses -ing consistently and correctly. Axl tells his family how much he likes “watching Otonaus (Octonauts)”

  • Form - 30 months

    Is in Brownʼs Stage III: This means the child uses three element sentence and independent clauses. Axl enjoys being a superhero and tells his family, “I go jump!”

  • Use - 30 months

    Introduces and changes discussion topics: This means the child can come up with a topic they want to talk about and actually discuss it. Axl was working on naming colors with his mom, and when they finished he told her he was hungry.

  • Content - 33 months

    Produces 500 words: This means the child can produce these words with clear intention, following adult pronunciation, and with consistent usage in correct situations. Axl often says many new words, such as colors, characters, animals, food names, actions, and many more.

  • Use - 34 months

    Engages in short dialogues: This means the child will have short conversations. Axl often engages in dialogues with his dad about what they did during the day.

  • Form - 35 months

    Supresses most common phonological processes: This means the child rarely tries to simplify their speech. Axl can now confidently say “Octonauts” without fronting the “c” sound.

  • Content - 35 months

    Asks simple questions: This means the child asks short questions to gather more information. Axl often asks his parents, “Can we have cake?”

  • Use - 35 months

    Clarifies and asks for clarification during conversations: This means the child will repeat themselves or ask for help when they donʼt understand something during a conversation. Axl is very good at repeating himself when he says sandwich because his parents have trouble understanding the word.