Early recognition of your child’s condition is one of the greatest assets in treatment. We’ve created a development time table to help assist you in identifying your child’s progress.
6 Months Old
- Vocalization with intonation
- Responds to his/her name
- Responds to human voices by turning his/her head and eyes
- Knows names of familiar animals
- Responds appropriately to friendly and angry tones
12 Months Old
- Uses one or more words with meaning (this may be a fragment of a word)
- Understands simple instructions, especially if vocal or physical cues are given
- Practices inflection
18 Months Old
- Has vocabulary of approx. 5-20 words
- Vocabulary made up chiefly of nouns
- Imitates adult speech
- Is able to follow simple commands
24 Months Old (2 Years)
- Can name a number of objects common to his/her surroundings
- Is able to use at least two prepositions, usually from the following: in, on, under
- Combines words (“Hi mama”)
- Approx. 2/3 of speech is intelligible
- Has vocabulary of approx. 150-300 words
- Can use two pronouns correctly: I, me, you
- My and mine are beginning to emerge
- Responds to such commands as “show me your eyes”
36 Months Old (3 Years)
- Is using plurals and past tenses
- Knows chief parts of body
- Speaks in 3-word sentences
- Has vocabulary of approx. 900-1,000 words
- About 90% of speech is intelligible
- Verbs begin to predominate
- Understands simple questions
- Able to reason out such questions as “what must you do when you are sleepy, hungry?”
- Knows his/her sex, name, age
48 Months Old (4 Years)
- Knows names of familiar animals
- Can use at least 4 prepositions or can demonstrate understanding of meaning
- Names common objects in pictures,books or magazines
- Knows 1 or more colors
- Can repeat 4 digits
- Indulges in make-believe
60 Months Old (5 Years)
- Can use many descriptive words spontaneously –both adjectives and adverbs
- Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-soft
- Has number concepts of 4 or more
- Can count to 10 or more
- Speech is intelligible, in spite of minor articulation errors.
- Able to repeat sentences as long as nine words
- Able to define common objects in terms of use (hat, shoe)
- Able to follow three commands
- Has simple time concepts: morning, afternoon, night, day, later, tomorrow,
- Speech is grammatically correct
