Receptive Language
- Comprehends approximately 500 words
- Listens to a 5 to 10 minute story
- Carries out a series of two step commands
- Identifies actions in pictures
- Understands time concepts (i.e. 'wait' and 'later')
- Has concepts “one and “all”
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Expressive Language
- Uses approximately 50 – 200 intelligible words
- Names 6 objects by use
- Repeats two numbers correctly
- Answers “where” questions
- Answers “what” questions
- Answers “what do you hear with?” meaning that they understand the function of body parts?
- Asks 'Where' and 'Why' questions
Articulation/Verbal Output
- Approximately 50 – 70% intelligible
- May omit final consonants; reduces consonant blends; substitutes one consonant for another
Pragmatic/Social Language
- Engages in short dialogues
- Expresses emotion
- Uses attention-getting words, such as “hey”
- Seeks help from an adult
- Clarifies and ask for clarification
- Begins to provide descriptive details
Play Skills
- Parallel play dominates
- Arranges doll furniture into meaningful groups and uses doll figures to act out simple themes (imaginative play)
- Aligns three or more cubes to make a train; pushes train
- Builds tower of six to seven blocks
- Imitates drawing a vertical line
- Sequences related actions in play such as preparing food for a doll, feeding it, wipes its mouth
- Plays for at least 10 minutes
- Uses toys functionally
- Responds to peer requests
- Able to take turns with other children
- Can play with 2-3 children
- Symbolic play (ie. uses a block as a house)
- Makes comments about play (i.e. oh no the man is hurt!)
Oral Motor
- Consumes a variety of solids and liquids
- Independently uses a spoon to scoop solids
- Can drink from an open cup without spillage
Grammar
- Articles “a” and “the” appear in sentences
- Present progressive “ing” on verbs
- Regular plural forms emerging (cat+cats)
- Uses in/on correctly
- Irregular past tense emerging
- Uses some contractions in memorized form (don’t, can’t, it’s)
- Appropriate use of at least two pronouns
- Asks basic questions (“daddy gone?” “what’s this?”)
- Understands concept of first- and second- person pronouns (I, you)
- 25% of utterances are nouns, 25% are verbs
- Combines three to four words in subject + verb + object format
- Average response is 2 – 3 words
Literacy
- Listens to 4-8 minute stories
- Awareness of rhyming emerges
- Begins to understand print function (i.e. entertainment, communicating) and conventions (i.e. how to hold a book, different between words and pictures, difference between letter and a word)