Developmental milestones - Speech and hearing

Question 1

What are the speech and hearing milestones at 3 months?

Answer 1

Quietens to parents voice
Turns towards sound
Squeals

Question 2

What are the speech and hearing milestones at 6 months?

Answer 2

Double syllables ‘adah’, ‘erleh’

Question 3

What are the speech and hearing milestones at 9 months?

Answer 3

Says ‘mama’ and ‘dada’

Understands ‘no’

Question 4

What are the speech and hearing milestones at 12 months?

Answer 4

Knows and responds to own name

Question 5

What are the speech and hearing milestones at 18 months?

Answer 5

Knows about 2-6 words

Understand commands

Question 6

What are the speech and hearing milestones at 2 years?

Answer 6

Combine two words
Points to parts of the body
Vocabulary of 200 words

Question 7

What are the speech and hearing milestones at 3 years?

Answer 7

Talks in short sentences (e.g. 3-5 words)
Asks ‘what’ and ‘who’ questions
Identifies colours
Counts to 10 (little appreciation of numbers though)

Question 8

What are the speech and hearing milestones at 4 years?

Answer 8

Asks ‘why’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ questions