Things in GREEN are what he's able to do as of today, February 12, 2009. Just two short years after starting OT and speech and behavior therapies.
12 - 18 months of age - Receptive Language Skills
- Understands simple one-step commands
- Recognizes body parts when named
- Understands names of common objects by bringing them from another place upon request
- Identifies two or more familiar objects from a group of three to four objects by touching/pointing
- Enjoys listening to rhymes and jingles
- Begins to look more selectively at pictures to recognize them when named
Expressive Language
- Attempts to get objects by pointing and vocalizing
- Uses from three to 20 single words meaningfully
- Imitates many new words
- Uses words of more than one syllable
- Answers questions such as "What's this?"
- Asks for "more"
- Uses two-word combinations as single words such as "gimme"
- Communicates primarily through true words and gestures
18 - 24 months of age - Receptive Language Skills
- Recognizes body parts and clothing articles in large pictures
- Understands simple yes/no questions
- Understands differences in personal pronouns (me, you)
- Follows a series of two - three simple relations commands with the same object
- Appears to listen to meaning of languarge, not merely words
- Recognizes many common objects and pictures as they are named
Expressive Language
- Replaces jargon with meaningful words
- Imitates animal sounds and other environmental sounds in play
- Refers to self by name (only in pictures and mirror, not if you ask him his name)
- Uses "no" frequently
- Uses "my" to declare ownership
- Begins combining words to form two-word phrases
- Asks questions by raising pitch of voice at end of word or phrase
2 - 3 years of age - Receptive Language Skills
- Understands actions in pictures
- Recognizes names of smaller body parts (chin, knee, elbow)
- Understands functions of objects
- Understands size concepts big and little
- Understands quantity concepts one, more, all
- Understands spatial concepts in, on, under
- Becomes aware of a sequence and organization for daily routines
- Understands question forms who, where, what doing
- Understands genders (boy/girl)
- Likes to listen to short stories
Expressive Language
- Combines words to express: - Possession: "my coat"
- Recurrence: "more juice"
- Action: "go outside"
- Location: "want up"
- Negation: "no eat" - Usually uses two- to four-word phrases
- Asks for help with personal needs
- Uses I, me, mine, you
- Can say first and last name when asked
- Can repeat two numbers in sequence
- Talks about an event that has just happened
- Uses many commands ("go get it")
- Uses here, there
- Begins using "is" verb form
- Speech is understood by others 70 - 80 percent of the time
3 - 4 years of age - Receptive Language Skills
- Understands concepts hard/soft, rough/smooth
- Understands spatial concepts front/back
- Understands question forms, "What do you do when you're hungry? Sleepy?"
- Follows two-step directions involving two different actions
Expressive Language
- Asks many who, what, where, why questions
- Uses four- to five-word sentences most of the time
- Engages in detailed conversations
- Uses language in imaginative play
- Imitates whispering
- Relates two events in correct sequential order
- Completes simple verbal opposites
- Uses verb forms is, am, are
- Uses regular plural forms consistently ("blocks")
- Uses possessives ("mommy's car")
- Begins using "because" as an explanation
4 - 5 years of age - Receptive Language Skills
- Follows series of three unrelated commands
- Identifies two - three primary colors
- Understands concepts heavy/light, loud/quiet, day/night
- Understands directional concepts above/below, top/bottom
- Understands variety of question forms (where, when, how)
Expressive Language
- Combines four to eight words in sentences
- Describes objects according to size, shape, color
- Enjoys re-telling stories
- Enjoys asking meaning of new words
- Uses could and would verb forms
- Uses if and so in forming complex sentences
- Uses no and not" appropriately
- Uses contracted negatives (can't, don't)
- Regularly uses pronouns he, she, they and possessive pronouns his, her, our, their
5 years of age - Full Language Skills
- Defines objects by their use and can tell what objects are made of
- Knows spatial relations like on top, far, behind, and near
- Has a sentence length of five to eight words
- Has a vocabulary of about 2,000 words
- Knows common opposites like big/little and hard/soft
- Understands same and different
- Identifies all primary colors
- Counts ten objects
- Knows his/her address
- Identifies a penny, nickel and dime
- Carries a plot in a story
- Uses future, present, and past tense
- Stays with one activity for 12 -13 minutes
- Asks for information
- Distinguishes left and right hand in him/herself, but not in others
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