SPEECH THERAPY:

ARTICULATION DEVELOPMENT

 Below are the approximate ages at which children acquire sounds.

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

 Below are the approximate ages that children develop specific language skills.

1.5-2.5 years

 m,p,b,w,n,t,d

1-2years

 Naming words e.g.ball, car

Negative words e.g. no, gone

Recurrence e.g. more

Action words e.g. run, eat

Location words e.g. there

2.5-3.5 years

 h,k,g

2-3 years

 Predispositions e.g. in, on, under

Plural “s” e.g. cars

Ing e.g. running

Pronouns e.g. I, you, it, me, my

3-3.5 years

 f,s

3-4 years

 Articles e.g.a, the

Possessives e.g. mummy’s shoe

Past tense’ed’ e.g. jumped

‘is’e.g. it is big

Pronouns e.g. we, he, she

3.5-4 years

 v,z,l,y and consonants blends

e.g.snake

4-5 years

 Irregular past tense e.g. ate, saw,

Contractibles e.g. isn’t, don’t

Cojunctions e.g. and, because

Pronouns e.g. his, him, her

4-5 years

 sh, ch, j

SENTENCE LENGTH

 1-2 years= 1-2 words

2-3 years= 2-3 words

3-4 years= 3 or more words

4-5 years= 5 or more words

5-7 years

 r,th