By the age of 2 years your child should:
- Be able to name a number of common objects
- Combine 2 words: more milk, want toy, etc.
- Have a vocabulary of 150-300 words
- Respond to commands such as “show me your eyes (nose, mouth, hair)
By the age of 3 years your child should:
- Use pronouns I, you, and me correctly
- Know at least 3 prepositions, usually in, on and under
- Know chief body parts a
- Handles 3 word sentences easily
- Has approx. 1000 word vocabulary
- About 90% of what they say should be intelligible
- Understands most simple questions
- Should be able to give their gender, name, and age
By the age of 4 years your child should:
- Know names of familiar animals
- Be able to use at least four prepositions or can demonstrate his understanding of their meaning when
- given commands
- Know two or more colors
- Usually be able to repeat words of four syllables
- Use extensive verbalization as he carries out activities
- Understand such concepts as longer, larger, when a contrast is presented
By the age of 5 years your child should:
- Use many descriptive words
- Know common opposites: big-little, hard-soft
- Have a number concepts of 4 or more
- Be able to count to ten
- Have completely intelligible speech
- Be able to repeat sentences as long as nine words
- Be able to define common objects in terms of use (hat, shoe, chair)
- Be able to follow three commands
- Have simple time concepts: morning, afternoon, night, day, later, after, tomorrow, etc.
- Have speech that is grammatically correct
By the age of 6 years your child should:
- Have speech that is completely intelligible and socially useful
- be able to tell listener a connected story about a picture, seeing relationships between objects and happenings