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Speech-Language Developmental Checklist We hope this checklist is helpful for educating yourself about developmental milestones that children reach. Of coarse children do learn at their own rate so it is a general guideline. By 6 months a child should be: babbling and using vocal play coos, chuckles, and laughs turns toward sound or person transfers an object from hand to hand maintains eye contact recognizes own name
6-9 months using the sounds m,n,t,d,b,p, and y in babbling imitates intonation and some sounds duplicates the same syllable in babbling imitates gestures (i.e. waving, clapping) looks at family member named responds to "no" most of the time searches for hidden object waves "bye-bye"
9-12 months acquires first new word between 10-18 months combines different syllables during babbling vocalizes to call others covers and uncovers face during "peed-a-boo" identifies two body parts says "mama" or "dada" meaningfully imitates some sounds in play
1 to 1 1/2 years uses sentence like intonation omits most final and some initial consonants most of what the child says you can't understand accurately imitates some words follows simple directions points to wanted objects uses 3-20 words
1 1/2 to 2 years words increasing, jargon is almost gone by 2 years asks questions by raising intonation starting to use more final consonants on words understands about 300 words points to 5 body parts on self or doll responds with 'yes' and 'no' accurately with head shake uses approximately 50 words
2 to 2 1/2 years starts combing 2 words together at approximately 2 years old understand about 70 percent of what child says may still omit some final consonants should be combining two words together comprehends approximately 500 words understands concepts of 'one' and 'all' says about 200 words answers 'where' and 'what' questions
2 1/2 to 3 years understand 80% of what child says mastered consonants: p, m, n, w, h comprehends 900 words knows big/little and matches colors uses 500 words answers and asks simple questions
3 to 4 years uses final consonants consonants mastered: b, d, k, g, f, y responds to directions with two objects uses short phrases to communicate uses "not" using grammaticcal endings (i.e. -ing, -s, -ed)
4 to 5 years understand 90 percent of what child says combines 4 to 7 words in a sentence counts to 10 can tell his/her first and last name
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