7 - 12 Months

HEARING and UNDERSTANDING

• Enjoys games like peek-o-boo and pat-a-cake.
• Turns and looks in direction of sounds.
• Listens when spoken to.
• Recognizes words for common items like “cup”, “shoe”, “book”, or “juice”.
• Begins to respond to requests (e.g. “Come here” or “Want more?”).

TALKING

Developmental Milestones

• Babbling has both long and short groups of sounds such as “tata upup, bibibibi.”

• Uses speech or non-crying sounds to get and keep attention.
• Uses gestures to communication (waving, holding arms to be picked up) • Imitates different speech sounds.
• Has one or two words (hi, dog, dada, mama) around first birthday, although sounds may not be clear.

Three to Four Years

Four to Five Years

Adapted from How Does Your Child Hear and Talk?

http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/chart.htm