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18 months
- Children’s speech will be quite indistinct at this age.
- You should be able to recognise certain consistent words for objects or people.
- They will follow simple instructions e.g. ‘Show me the cat’.
- They should understand a range of words for objects and will point to several objects and pictures in a book.
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2 years
- By this age children should be using 50+ words.
- They will be able to follow two words in an instruction e.g. ‘Where is Harry’s nose; ‘Where’s Mummy’s mouth?’.
- They will be putting words together to make two word phrases e.g. ‘Daddy’s car’; ‘Harry’s car’.
- They will understand simple attributes for example, dirty, wet, cold.
- They will be joining in with nursery rhymes and songs.
- They will probably still not have very clear speech and may miss off consonants at the ends of words.
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3 years
- By this age your child will be speaking in phrases/ simple sentences.
- They will be able to follow more difficult instructions e.g. ‘Put teddy and dolly on the sofa’.
- They will understand some prepositions e.g. ‘on’ or ‘under’.
- They will be able to take part in simple conversations.
- They will be asking what, where and who questions.
- They will be able to talk about things that happen away from home for instance, at nursery/daycare.
- They will now be using consonants at the ends of words.
- They will still have difficulty with certain sounds for example, ‘s’, ‘f’, ‘k’ and saying those sounds together for example, ‘spoon’.
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4 years
- Your child will be able to understand and answer questions about stories you are reading with them.
- They will understand most of what is said in day-to-day simple conversations around them.
- They will be using long and complex sentences and will be able to tell you about events that have happened in detail.
- Most consonants are used correctly although certain sounds are still developing for example, ‘r’, ‘th’, ‘sh’.
For older children, please feel free to call us to discuss.
