Hearing and understanding

• Hears you when you call from another room.
• Hears television or radio at the same loudness level as other family members.
• Understands words for some colors, like red, blue, and green
• Understands words for some shapes, like circle and square
• Understands words for family, like brother, grandmother, and aunt

Talking

• Talks about activities at school or at friends’ homes.
• Talks about what happened during the day.
• Uses about 4 sentences at a time.
• People outside of the family usually understand child’s speech
• Answers simple “who?”, “what?”, and “where?” questions.
• Asks when and how questions.
• Says rhyming words, like hat-cat
• Uses pronouns, like I, you, me, we, and they
• Uses some plural words, like toys, birds, and buses
• Uses a lot of sentences that have 4 or more words.
• Usually talks easily without repeating syllables