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