Pediatric Therapy Services

Your child should recognize the names of simple, common objects, familiar people, and action verbs.

Your child should understand new words each week, identify pictures in a book, know a few major body parts, and identify some common objects.

Your child should recognize many common objects and pictures when named. They should also be able to follow several simple directions.

Your child should be able to listen to simple stories, follow a two step command, and understand the concept of taking turns.

Your child should be able to correctly identify colors, understand “more” and “most”, and make inferences.

Your child should understand time concepts, understand qualitative concepts, and understand “-er” as “one who does something”.

 Your child should understand passive voice tense, identify objects that don’t belong, and be able to order pictures from largest to smallest. 

Your child should use anywhere from one to three words.

Your child should repeat some overheard words and begin to try to communicate with more words than gestures.

Your child should join words into phrases such as “more ball” or “bye mama”.

Your child should begin to use short phrases 3-4 words in length.

Your child should have a vocabulary of approximately 1000 words and be about 75% intelligible.

Your child should be able to name pictures in a book, tell how an object is used, and use possessives.

Your child should be about 95% intelligible, even to unfamiliar listeners.

Your child should be able to respond to “where” questions and complete analogies.

Your child should be able to repeat sentences, use adjectives to describe objects, use past tense forms of verbs (-ed), and describe similarities.

Your child should be able to define words, rhyme words, and repair grammatical errors.