• Listen to speech

• Startle or cry at noises

0-3 Months:

• Turn to you when you speak

• Smile when spoken to

• Recognize your voice and quiet down if crying

• Coo and goo

• Cry differently for different needs
  

Respond to “no”

• Look around for the source of a new sound

• Babble

• Imitate different speech sounds

7 months - 1 year:

• recognize words for common items

• Begin to respond to requests (Come here)

• Have one or two words

• Use speech or non-crying sounds to gain attention

1 - 2 years:

• Understand a variety of words and should be using a few single words.

• Point to pictures in a book when named

• Point to a few body parts

• Follow simple commands

• By age two, words should be combined into two and three-word phrases and sentences.
  

• Understand differences in some opposites

• Follow two requests

• Have a word for almost everything

• Use 2 - 3 word sentences

3 - 4 years:

• Answer simple “who, what, where and why” questions

• Use sentences of 4 or more words in length

4 -5 years:

• Pay attention to a story and answer simple questions about it

• Communicate easily with children and adults

• Use the same grammar as the rest of the family
  
  

Read more about Stuttering and Hearing Loss on page four

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