Posted by: Carmen N.
Developmental milestones are a set of functional skills or age-specific tasks that most children can do at a certain age range. In this post we will discuss normal development in your child's language skills for the first two years of life. Keep in mind that although each milestone has an age level , the actual age when a normally developing child reaches that milestone can vary quite a bit. Every child is unique!
The first two years:
0 - 6 months:
This information represents, on average, the age by which most monolingual speaking children will accomplish the listed milestones. Children typically do not master all items in a category until they reach the upper age in each age range. Just because your child has not accomplished one skill within an age range does not mean the child has a disorder. The earlier a child's speech and language problems are identified and treated, the less likely it is that problems will persist or get worse in the future. Early speech and language intervention can help children be more successful with reading, writing, schoolwork, and interpersonal relationships. If your child has not met the majority of the items in an age range, please contact Personal Touch Therapy at 713-510-5699 to schedule an in-home evaluation.
(Resources: www.umich.edu, www.asha.org)
Developmental milestones are a set of functional skills or age-specific tasks that most children can do at a certain age range. In this post we will discuss normal development in your child's language skills for the first two years of life. Keep in mind that although each milestone has an age level , the actual age when a normally developing child reaches that milestone can vary quite a bit. Every child is unique!
The first two years:
0 - 6 months:
- Uses different cry to express different needs
- Localizes sounds by turning head
- Uses sounds or gestures to indicate wants
- Frequently coos, gurgles and makes pleasure sounds
- Imitates tongue movements and smiles at familiar faces
- Looks and smiles at people when talked to
- Listens to and imitates some adult speech sounds/intonation patterns
- Babbles using long and short groups of sounds
- Understands phrases like "no-no", "all gone", and "bye-bye"
- Makes some appropriate use of gestural language (shake head for "no")
- Begins to change babbling to jargon
- Uses speech intentionally for the first time
- Say "mama" or "dada" for parents
- Looking for hidden objects
- Points or gestures to communicate or identify needs
- Talks in single words, often omits some initial consonants and almost all final consonants
- Uses echolalia and jargon
- Has 3-20 words (mostly nouns) in expressive vocabulary
- Receptively identifies 1-3 body parts
- Follows simple directions
- Uses words more frequently than jargon
- Has an expressive vocabulary of 50 to 100 words
- Has a receptive vocabulary of 300 or more words
- Starts to combine nouns and verbs
- Begins to use pronouns
- Is approximately 20-50% intelligible to strangers
- Names a few familiar objects
- Identifies 5-6 body parts on a doll
- Begins to understand adjectives in phrases
This information represents, on average, the age by which most monolingual speaking children will accomplish the listed milestones. Children typically do not master all items in a category until they reach the upper age in each age range. Just because your child has not accomplished one skill within an age range does not mean the child has a disorder. The earlier a child's speech and language problems are identified and treated, the less likely it is that problems will persist or get worse in the future. Early speech and language intervention can help children be more successful with reading, writing, schoolwork, and interpersonal relationships. If your child has not met the majority of the items in an age range, please contact Personal Touch Therapy at 713-510-5699 to schedule an in-home evaluation.
(Resources: www.umich.edu, www.asha.org)
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