| Age |
Hearing & Understanding
(Auditory/Receptive) |
Talking
(Expressive Language) |
| Newborns |
· Startles at loud noises.
· Appears to listen to speech. |
· Coos, laughs and uses voice |
| 3 Months |
· Seems to recognize a familiar voice.
· Looks in direction of speaker.
· Stops playing and attends to sounds.
· Smiles at speaker. |
· Uses vocal play, repeating the same sounds often.
· Begins to babble.
· Uses a different cry to express different needs. |
| 6 Months |
· Responds to changes in tones of voice.
· Notices new sounds.
· Responds to name.
· Responds to "No". |
· Frequently babbling.
· Makes a variety of differing sounds. |
9 Months
to
1 Year |
· Responds to simple requests: "Come here".
· Recognizes names for common objects. |
· Imitates speech sounds.
· Uses jargon.
· Uses a few words.
· Uses voice to get attention.
· Waves "bye bye". |
| 1-2 Years |
· Follows simple commands and directions.
· Understands simple questions.
· Points to a few body parts.
· Listens to short stories. |
· Uses up to 20 words.
· Combines words in 2 word phrases.
· Greets others. Protests.
· Takes turns during verbal interactions. |
| 2-3 Years |
· Understands a variety of who, what, where, and when questions.
· Follows a two-step command.
· Listens to simple conversations
· Points to pictures in a book when reader names them.
· Notices environmental sounds like television, phone, dog barking. |
· Has a vocabulary of 100-300 words.
· Produces a variety of 3 and 4 word sentences.
· Answers "yes-no" questions.
· Talks to self during play.
· Asks "yes-no" questions.
· Speech is understandable most of the time. |
| 3-5 Years |
· Listens to and understands conversations.
· Attends to stories read.
· Follows series of 3 commands.
· Understands object functions.
· Understands a variety of concepts-colors, numbers, time, size |
· Speech is understood.
· Produces almost all sounds correctly by age 5.
· Describes a sequence of events.
· Carries on conversations.
· By age 5 uses up to 8 word sentence.
· Asks questions.
· Uses the same grammar as other family members. |
