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The document provides information on typical language development milestones from birth to 3 years of age. It outlines receptive and expressive language skills that children are generally expected to reach at various age ranges, including birth to 3 months, 3 to 6 months, 6 to 9 months, and so on up to 33 to 36 months. The document recommends that parents talk, play, read, and have fun with their child to help support their language development. It also notes that if a child is not meeting 3 or more milestones for their age range, parents should consult their family physician or a speech language pathologist.

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Speech Develop Milestones

The document provides information on typical language development milestones from birth to 3 years of age. It outlines receptive and expressive language skills that children are generally expected to reach at various age ranges, including birth to 3 months, 3 to 6 months, 6 to 9 months, and so on up to 33 to 36 months. The document recommends that parents talk, play, read, and have fun with their child to help support their language development. It also notes that if a child is not meeting 3 or more milestones for their age range, parents should consult their family physician or a speech language pathologist.

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Speech and Language

Developmental Milestones
(Birth - 3)

Birth to 3 months
Receptive Language (Understanding)
Responds to sounds.
Smiles and/or verbalizes when spoken
to.
Quiets to familiar voices.

The St. Alexius Medical Center Speech


Language Pathology Department would
like to provide you with information
regarding your childs early language
development.

What Is Communication?
Communication includes language
(understanding what is being spoken,
reading, writing, and talking), speech
(articulation, voice, fluency/stuttering)
and hearing abilities. This handout will
educate you on the language component
of communication.

What Is Language?
Language is a system of symbols and
codes used in communication. It is the
rules we learn in order to communicate
our wants, needs, and dreams. Examples
of language include: gestures, reading,
writing, and speaking.

What Should My Child Be


Doing?
*Remember that children are individuals
and develop at different rates. What is
important is that your child shows
continuous language growth and
development.
The following list is not all inclusive,
but gives general milestones for each
age range, up to three years. Language
skills do continue to grow after three
years of age, especially language needed
to perform adequately in academic and
social environments. Sources do vary
as to when certain milestones are met,
however, if your child is not doing three
or more of the items in his/her age range,
please visit with your family physician or
a speech-language pathologist.

Expressive Language (Talking)


Coos (prolonged vowels in a sing song
manner).
Different cries (hunger, attention).
Makes gurgling sounds.

3 to 6 months
Receptive Language (Understanding)
Searches for speaker and sounds.
Frightened or upset by angry voices &
smiles with friendly voices.
Localizes/searches for and responds to
sounds.
Anticipates feeding at the sight of a
bottle.
Expressive Language (Talking)
Vocal turn-taking.
Hand, nonspeech, and vocal imitation.
Produces raspberries and sound play.
Early lip and tongue sounds-p, m, b,
and d.

6 to 9 months
Receptive Language (Understanding)
Responds to no.
Recognizes and responds to name.
Responds to come.
Anticipates what will happen next.
Responds with a gesture for up and
bye.
Expressive Language (Talking)
Smiles and vocalizes to self in mirror or
to a moving object.
Sings to familiar songs, with and without true words.
Says things like: ma, da, ga, ba, and
dada, mama, baba (no specific
meaning).
Uses gestures, pushing, or pulling to
communicate.
Vocabulary of 1 word.

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9 to 12 months

Receptive Language (Understanding)


Follows simple commands like sit
down, come here, give it.
Recognizes and looks at common
objects, pets, and people when named.
Participates in games like peek-a-boo
and patty-cake.
Expressive Language (Talking)
Uses jargon with inflection and pauses.
Says mama, dada, bye-bye, no.
Imitates speech and animals sounds.
Says 1 word at 9 months, 2 words at
10 months, 3 words at 11 months, 4
words at 12 months, and 3 words other
than mama and dada at 13 months.

12 to 15 months

Receptive Language (Understanding)


Understands and identifies two words/
objects in the following categories:
toys, family members, clothing.
Attends to a book or toy for 2 minutes
and can identify common objects in the
book.
Identifies 1-3 body parts.
Enjoys music, social games, and finger
plays.
Expressive Language (Talking)
Says 5+ true words, 7+ by 15 months
(some sources indicate 10-19 words,
e.g., all done, more).
Uses jargon and true words when
talking.
Uses gestures and vocalizations to
express wants and needs.

15 to 18 months

Receptive Language (Understanding)


Identifies 4-6 body parts or clothing
items on a doll, self, or adult.
Follows 2 step commands (e.g., get the
baby and put it in the bed).
Understands 50 words.
Expressive Language (Talking)
Says 15+ words with specific meaning
(some sources say 20-29 words by 18
months).
Repeats words overheard.
3-4 new words each month.
Starting to use words rather than
gestures.
50% of utterances are nouns; omits
final consonants in words, e.g., ba
for ball or mo for more.

18 to 21 months

27 to 30 months

Receptive Language (Understanding)


Understands and identifies two words
in the following categories: family
friends, things outdoors, descriptive
words (hot), household items,
pronouns, and places.
Understands verbs in sentences (eat,
drink, sleep).
Understands more complex sentences
(e.g., After daddy gets home, we will
call grandma).

Receptive Language (Understanding)


Points to picture when given a function
of the object (e.g., point to the one that
meows).
Identifies colors.
Understands part/whole relationships
(e.g., point to the tail of the cat).

Expressive Language (Talking)


Imitates words heard at the end of
sentences and 2-3 words phrases.
Speaking vocabulary of 20+ words.
Starts to use 2-word phrases.
Uses no and one pronoun (my, mine,
me, you).
Says hi.

21 to 24 months
Receptive Language (Understanding)
Understands 300 words and is learning
new words daily.
Follows new, less routine commands.
Easily points to body parts.
Expressive Language (Talking)
Uses 30-50 words of specific meaning
at 21 months and more than 50 words
at 24 months.
Uses 2-word phrases the majority of
the time and 3-word phrases some of
the time.
Knows and says full name.
Talks about recent experiences.
Uses plural by adding s.

24 to 27 months
Receptive Language (Understanding)
Identifies objects by their use-drink out
of, sleep in, sit on, eat with.
Knows difference between big/little, in/
on, one/all, give/dont give.
Understands the quantity of one.
Expressive Language (Talking)
Uses 3-words statements (27 months).
Asks for help with personal needs
(washing hands, getting a drink).
Recites portions of nursery rhymes and
songs.
Uses a question inflection.

Expressive Language (Talking)


Names 1 color.
Names pictures in respond to a
question.
Answers what, where, and yes/no
questions.
Uses verb + ing (eating, sleeping,
crying).
Uses the past tense (talked).

30 to 33 months
Receptive Language (Understanding)
Fully understands the concepts of one
and all.
Understands descriptive concepts like
heavy, empty, same.
Groups objects (animals, cars, food).
Expressive Language (Talking)
Uses plurals (cats, cookies),
consistently.
Uses prepositions (in, on, under).
Gives gender.
Tells how an object is used and about
what he/she has drawn.

33 to 36 months
Receptive Language (Understanding)
Completes 3-step commands.
Wants to know why and how things
work.
Responds to why and when questions.
Expressive Language (Talking)
Talks in 4-5 word sentences.
Uses plurals other than by adding s
(feet).
Uses negatives other than no (never,
wont, cant).
Starting to count.

What Can I Do To Help My


Child?
TALK to and with your child. Describe
what you or your child is doing. Use
simple language. Supplement your
output with gestures and/or objects.
PLAY with your child. Model play
and play routines. Pretend. Follow
your childs lead. Children learn best
through play.
READ to your child. Describe the
pictures in books and ask simple
questions about the pictures or the
story.
HAVE FUN WITH YOUR CHILD!

What Do I Do If I Have More


Questions?
Visit with your Doctor or call us at
530-8200.

References:
Bzoch, K. & League, R. (1991). The BzochLeague Receptive and Expresive Emergent
Language Test. 2nd edition. (REEL-2).
Austin, TX: Pro-ed.
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/ncedl/PDFs/
ome2000.pdf Ear Infection and
Language Development.
http://www.asha.org/public/speech/
development/child_hear_talk.htm?
print=1 How Does Your Child Hear
and Talk?
http://www.kidsource.com/ASHA/
child_language.html Questions and
Answers About Child Language.
SEED Speech and Language Development
Profile
Shipley, K. G. & McAfee, J. G. (1992).
Assessment in speech language pathology: a
resource manual. City, State: Thomson
Learning.
Owens, Jr. R. E. (1996). Language
development: an introduction-fourth edition.
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Zimmerman, I. L., Steiner, V.G. & Pond, R. E.
(2002). Preschool Language Scale-Fourth
Edition. City, State: Harcourt Assessment, Inc.

St. Alexius
Speech Therapy

PrimeCare

530-8200

Developed by: Kathie Beneke M.S. CCC-SLP

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