Speech & Language Flashcards
Makes cooing sounds
0 - 3 months
Cries change for different needs
0 - 3 months
Smiles at people
0 - 3 months
Coos and babbles when playing alone or with you
4 - 6 months
Makes speech-like babbling sounds like “pa,” “ba,” and “mi”
4 - 6 months
Giggles and laughs
4 - 6 months
Makes sounds when happy or upset
4 - 6 months
Begins to repeat sounds
4 - 6 months
Imitates his/her own voice
4 - 6 months
Vocalization with intonation
By 6 months
Babbles long strings of sounds, like “mimi upup babababa”
7 months - 1 year
Uses sounds and gestures to get and keep attention
7 months - 1 year
Points to objects and shows them to others
7 months - 1 year
Uses gestures like waving bye, reaching for “up,” and shaking his head no
7 months - 1 year
Imitates different speech sounds
7 months - 1 year
Says 1 or 2 true words, like “hi, “ “dog,” “dada,” “mama,” or “uh-oh.” This will happen around his/her first birthday (12 months), but sounds may not be clear
7 months - 1 year
Practices inflection
7 months - 1 year
Uses a lot of new words
1 - 2 years
Uses “p,” “b,” “m,” “h,” and “w” in words
1 - 2 years
Starts to name pictures in books
1 - 2 years
Asks questions, like “What’s that?” “Who’s that?” and “Where’s kitty?”
1 - 2 years
Puts 2 words together, like “more apple, “no bed,” and “mommy book.”
1 - 2 years
Has vocabulary of approx. 5 - 20 words
By 18 months
Vocabulary made of chiefly nouns
By 18 months
Some echolalia (repeating of word or phrase over and over)
By 18 months
Much jargon w/emotional content
By 18 months
Has vocabulary of approx. 150 - 300 words
By 24 months
Can name a number of objects common to his/her surroundings
By 24 months
Able to use at least two prepositions, usually chosen from the following: in, on, under
By 24 months
Combines words into a short sentence
By 24 months
Volume/pitch of voice not well controlled
By 24 months
Can use 2 pronouns correctly: I, me, you (often confuse me and I)
By 24 months
My and mine are beginning to emerge
By 24 months
Has a word for almost everything
2 - 3 years
Talks about things that are not in the room
2 - 3 years
Uses “k,” “g,” “f,” “t,” “d,” and “n” in words
2 - 3 years
Uses words like “in,” “on,” and “under”
2 - 3 years
Uses two- or three-words to talk about and ask for things
2 - 3 years
People who know your child can understand him/her
2 - 3 years
Asks “Why?”
2 - 3 years
Puts 2 words together to talk about things
2 - 3 years
May repeat some words and sounds
2 - 3 years
Vocabulary of 900 - 1000 words
By 36 months
Uses pronouns I, you, me correctly
By 36 months
Is using some plurals and past tenses
By 36 months
Handles three word sentences easily
By 36 months
Verbs begin to predominate
By 36 months
Answers simple who, what and where questions
3 - 4 years
Says rhyming words, like hat-cat
3 - 4 years
Uses pronouns like I, you, me, we and they
3 - 4 years
Most people understand what your child says
3 - 4 years
Asks when and how questions
3 - 4 years
Puts 4 words together. May make some mistakes, like “I goed to school”
3 - 4 years
Talks about what happened during the day. Uses about 4 sentences at a time.
3 - 4 years
Says all speech sounds in words. May make mistakes on sounds that are harder to say like l, s, r, v z, ch, sh, and th
4 - 5 years
Responds to “What did you say?”
4 - 5 years
Talks without repeating sounds or words most of the time
4 - 5 years
Names letters and numbers
4 - 5 years
Uses sentences that have more than 1 action word, like jump, play, and get. May make some mistakes like “Zach gots 2 video games, but I got one”
4 - 5 years
Tells a short story
4 - 5 years
Keeps a conversation going
4 - 5 years
Talks in different ways, depending on the listener and place. Your child may use short sentences with younger children. He/she may talk louder outside than inside.
4 - 5 years
Uses some plural words, like “toys,” “birds,” and “buses”
3 - 4 years
