Developmental Speech And Language Milestones

• Quiets/smiles when spoken to
• Cries vary for different needs

• Responds to changes in tone of voice
• Vocalizes sounds of pleasure and discontentment, Babbling sounds are more speech-like

• Enjoys games like peek-a-boo and recognizes common item words (e.g. cup, shoe)
• Babbling has long/short groups of sounds (e.g. tatata bibibib) and imitates speech sounds and intonation - At 12 months, child may have 1-2 words (e.g. mama, dada, bye-bye). Words may be unclear

• Points to a few body parts
• Follows simple commands (roll the ball)
• Uses more words each month
• Use sentence like imitation using adult-like prosody
• Eventually start putting 2 words together (no juice, more mommy)

• Understand difference between the meaning of come contrasting words (stop-go, big—little)
• Uses 2-3 word sentences
• Often directs attention to objects or asks for them by naming them