Age-Appropriate Speech and Hearing Milestones

Age

   Milestone

Start to three months

 

• Reacts to acquainted sounds or voices. For instance, calms down when listening to mother or father’s voice.

• Reacts to sudden loud sounds. Could blink, startle, or cry.

• Makes vocal sounds apart from crying.

3 months to 4 months

 

• Appears to be like within the course of a sound to see the place it’s coming from.

• Makes sounds again while you speak to them.

• Makes sounds, comparable to “oooo” and “ahhh” (cooing).

4 months to six months

 

6 months to 9 months

 

• Babbles, making repetitive sounds, comparable to “mama” and “baba.”

• Appears to be like while you name their title.

• Smiles or laughs while you play peek-a-boo.

9 months to 12 months

 

12 months to fifteen months

 

• Tries to say 1 or 2 phrases in addition to “mama” or “dada,” like “ba” for ball or “da” for canine.

• Follows easy instructions when given with each a gesture and phrase. For instance, they provide you a e book while you maintain your hand out and say, “Give me the e book.”

• Appears to be like at a well-recognized object while you title it.

• Factors to ask for one thing or get assist.

15 months to 18 months

 

• Tries to say 3 or extra phrases in addition to “mama” or “dada.”

• Follows one-step instructions with none gestures, like supplying you with an object while you say, “Give it to me.”

18 months to 24 months

 

• Combines not less than 2 phrases into quick phrases, comparable to “extra cookie” or “need milk.”

• Factors to not less than 2 physique components while you ask them to indicate you.

• Makes use of extra gestures than simply waving and pointing, like blowing a kiss or nodding sure.

• Factors to issues in a e book while you ask, like “The place is the fish?”

24 months to 30 months

 

• Says about 50 phrases.

• Says 2 or extra phrases, with one motion phrase, like “Doggie run.”

• Names issues in a e book while you level and ask, “What is that this?”

• Says phrases like “I,” “me,” or “we.”

• Follows easy routines when advised, like serving to to select up toys while you say, “It’s clean-up time.”

30 months to three years

 

• Talks with you in dialog utilizing not less than 2 back-and-forth exchanges.

• Asks “who,” “what,” “the place,” or “why” questions, like “The place is my ball?”

• Says what motion is going on in an image or e book when requested, like “swimming,” “consuming,” or “strolling.”

• Says first title, when requested.

• Talks properly sufficient for others to know, more often than not.

3 years to 4 years

 

• Says sentences with 4 or extra phrases.

• Says some phrases from a track, story, or nursery rhyme.

• Talks about not less than 1 factor that occurred throughout their day.

• Solutions easy questions like “What’s a pencil for?”

4 years to five years

 

• Tells a narrative they heard or made up with not less than 2 occasions. For instance, a canine was misplaced and a good friend discovered it.

• Solutions easy questions on a e book or story after you learn or inform it to them.

• Retains a dialog going with greater than 3 back-and-forth exchanges.

• Makes use of or acknowledges easy rhymes (bat-cat, ball-tall).