Thursday, October 19, 2017 |
By 12 months
The skills listed below mark children's progress as they learn to communicate and gain speech and language abilities. If your child is not meeting one or more of these milestones or if you have concerns about your child's communication development, please contact us or come to a drop-in to meet with a Speech-Language Pathologist.
By 12 months of age, most children will:
- follow simple one-step directions (e.g. "sit down")
- look across the room to a toy when adult points at it
- consistently use 3 to 5 words
- use gestures to communicate (e.g. waves hi/bye, shakes head "no")
- get your attention using sounds, gestures and pointing while looking at your eyes
- bring you toys to show you
- "perform" for social attention and praise
- combine lots of sounds together as though talking (e.g. "abada baduh abee")
- show an interest in simple picture books
