SPEECH SOUND DEVELOPMENT
| One to two years: | m, n, h, p, ing |
| Two to three years: | d, f, k, y, g, b, t | Three to four years: | s, l, r, ch, dge | Four to five years: | v, sh, th, s, r |
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Understands use, size and position words.
May use 200 words by 24 months.
Asks questions and uses possessives, past tense, negation and plurals.
Sentence length: minimum 3 to 4 words.
Understands category words and negation.
Has 900-1,500-word vocabulary.
Answers function questions.
Sentence length: minimum 4 to 5 words.
Understands more categories, colors, directional words, pronouns and possessives.
Able to express colors, categories, opposites and definitions.
Answers “wh” questions.
Language form is close to adult form.
SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST MAY BE NECESSARY IF:
- Child is not talking by age 2.
- Child is still difficult to understand at age 3.
- Child’s sentence structure is faulty at age 5.
- Child’s speech doesn’t flow naturally at age 5.
- Child frequently asks for repetitions.
- Child does not follow simple commands.
- Child’s voice quality is hoarse or nasal.
- Child is not participating in pretend play by age 3.
- Child does not exhibit appropriate eye contact or point with index finger to indicate wants by age 12 months.
DYSLEXIA MILESTONES
- May lack awareness of the sounds and structure of words.
- May have difficulty learning the names of letters of the alphabet.
- May have difficulty learning the sounds associated with letters.
- May have difficulty saying the alphabet correctly in sequence.
- May have difficulty sounding out unfamiliar words.
- May have difficulty with sight words.
- May have repeated spelling errors.
- May reverse letters or sequences of letters in words.
- May have difficulty learning to tie shoes or tell time with a clock with hands.
- May have difficulty with handwriting.
- May have difficulty with reading comprehension.
- Late establishing a dominant hand.
- Difficulty finding the “right” word.
- Delayed spoken language.