Developmental Norms: Expressive Language (3)

Question 1

6-12 months

Answer 1

6 months:

1. coos, gurgles
2. blow bubbles
3. babbles with intonation

12 months:

1. babbles with consonants (n, d, b, m(
2. Points, waves and gestures
3. Tries to copy sounds

Question 2

1;6- 2 years

Answer 2

1;6 years:

1. points and vocalises for requests
2. imitates words and sounds
3. says around 10 recognisable words

2 years:

1. learns and uses new words quickly
2. 50 word vocab; leaves favourite food, toys, pets
3. 2-word combination, e.g. “sit chair”
4. repetitive vocab

Question 3

2;6- 3 years

Answer 3

2;6 years:

1. 200 word vocab
2. 2-3 word MLU; joins 2-3 words
3. uses ‘what’, ‘who’, ‘me’, ‘I’, ‘you’ pronouns
4. sings parts of nursery rhymes
5. intelligible to parent/carer

3 years:

1. 1000 word vocab
2. increasing use of verbs
3. uses grammatical morphemes -ing, -ed and plural ‘s’
4. uses negative, e.g. ‘don’t’
5. 3-4 word MLU

Question 4

3;6- 4 years

Answer 4

3;6 years:

1. 3-4 word MLU, uses 3-4 word sentences
2. Links sentences with conjunctions, e.g. and, but, or
3. Intelligible speech to most people

4 years:

1. 1500 word vocab
2. grammatically corrects own speech
3. asks ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions, and meaning of words
4. tells long stories
5. uses regular/irregular pronouns, e.g. apples, mice BUT may still overgeneralise, e.g., “childrens”

Question 5

4;6- 5 years

Answer 5

4;6 - 5 years:

1. MLU 4-6
2. can describe why objects are similar or different
3. past tense, e.g. “I went”
4. predicts what will happen next
5. fluent speech
6. asks meaning of abstract words, e.g., “beautiful”
7. gives connected account of an event
8. uses concepts such as size, e.g. “tall” ,”short

Question 6

5;6 - 6 years

Answer 6

5;6 - 6 years:

1. 8+ words per sentence
2. sequences numbers
3. can relate simple stories and give explanation
4. uses past, present, and future tense in well-formed sentences, may still have errors

Question 7

7-11 years

Answer 7

7- 11 years:

1. can explain the meaning of words
2. begins to use slang
3. can construct sentence using time concepts
4. uses language to negotiate