1-2 Years
Hearing and Understanding
- Points to a few body parts when you ask
- Follow 1-part directions, like “Roll the Ball” or “Kiss the baby”
- Responds to simple questions, like “Who’s that?” or “where’s your shoe?”
- Listens to simple stories, songs, and rhymes
- Points to pictures in a book wh you name them
Talking
- Uses a lot of new words
- Uses p,b,m,h and w in words
- Starts to name pictures in books
- Asks questions, like “What’s that?”, “Who’s that”, and “Where’s Kitty?”
- Puts 2 words together, like “more, apple” “no, bed” and “mommy, book”
2-3 Years
Hearing and Understanding
- Understands opposites
- Follows 2-part directions
- Understands new words quickly
Talking
- Has a word for almost everything
- Uses k, g, f, t, d and n in words
- Uses words like in, on, and under
- Uses two – or three words
- People who know your child can understand him
- Asks “Why?”
- Puts 3 words together
3-4 Years
Hearing and Understanding
- Responds when you call from another room
- Understands words for some colours
- Understands words for some shapes
- Understands words for family
Talking
- Answers simple who, what, and where questions
- Says rhyming words
- Uses pronouns
- Uses some plural words
- Most people understand what your child says
- Asks when and how questions
- Puts 4 words together
- Talks about what happened during the day
4-5 Years
Hearing and Understanding
- Understands words for order, like first, next, and last
- Understands word for time, like yesterday, today and tomorrow
- Follows longer directions
- Hears and understands most of that she hears at home and in school
Talking
- Says all speech sounds in words
- Responds to “What did you say?”
- Talks without repeating sounds or words most of the time
- Names letters and numbers
- Uses sentences that have more than 1 action word
- Tells a short story
- Keeps a conversation going
- Talks in different ways, depending on the listener and place
