MILESTONE CHART

4-5 Years Old:

• Understands sequential language such as first, next, and last
• Understands time concepts yesterday, today, and tomorrow
• Follows three – four step directions such as, put on your pajamas, brush your teeth, and then pick out a book
• Follows classroom directions such as draw a circle on your paper around something you eat
• Produces complex sentence structures that contain more than one verb
• Tells a short story
• Sustains a conversation with adults
• Talks in different ways depending on the listener and place. May use short sentences with younger children or talk louder outside than inside

3-4 Years Old:

• Understands family members names
• Talks about activities at school or play dates
• Produces about 4 sentences at a time while describing events of day
• Unfamiliar listeners usually understand your child's speech
• Answers simple who, what and where questions
• Asks when and how questions
• Says rhyming words, like hat-cat
• Uses pronouns, such as I, you, me, we, and they
• Uses plural –s (e.g. hats, books)
• Produces sentences that are 4+ words
• Usually talks easily without repeating syllables or words

2-3 Years Old:

• Understands differences in meaning (go-stop, in-on, big-little, up-down)
• Follows two requests such as get the book and put it on the table
• Listens to and enjoys hearing stories for longer periods of time
• Has a word for almost everything
• Uses two- or three- words to talk about and ask for things
• Speech is understood by familiar listeners most of the time
• Often asks for or directs attention to objects by naming them
• Asks why?
• May stutter on words or sounds
• Has an expressive vocabulary of approximately 200-300 words at 2 years of age
• Has an expressive vocabulary of approximately 1000 words at 3 years of age

1-2 Years Old:

• Points to a few body parts when asked
• Follows simple commands and understands simple questions Roll the ball, Kiss the baby, Where's your shoe?
• Listens to simple stories, songs, and rhymes
• Points to pictures in a book when named
• Says more words every month
• Asks one or two word questions Where kitty?, What's that?
• Puts two words together more cookie, no juice, go car
• Uses many different consonant sounds at the beginning of words

7 Months–1 Years Old:

• Enjoys games like peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake
• Responds to his or her name
• Recognizes words for common items like cup, shoe, book, or juice
• Begins to respond to requests, such as come here or want more?
• Babbles using both long and short groups of sounds such as "dada, mama, bababa"
• Uses speech or vocalizations to gain and keep attention
• Uses gestures to communicate (waving, holding arms up to be picked up)
• Imitates different speech sounds
• Produces one or two words (hi, dog, dada, mama) around first birthday, although sounds may not be clear
• Follows simple 1 step directions sit down

4- 6 Months Old:

• Turns head toward a sound
• Responds to changes in tone of your voice
• Attends to music and toys that make sounds
• Babbles while using different sounds, including b, p, m
• Vocalizes excitement and displeasure
• Makes gurgling sounds when left alone and when playing with you