Thursday, September 16, 2021 |
By 48 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 48 months of age, most children will:
- follow directions involving 3 or more steps (e.g. "First get some paper, then draw a picture, last give it to Mom")
- use adult-type grammar
- tell stories with a clear beginning, middle and end
- talk to try to solve problems with adults and other children
- demonstrate increasingly complex imaginative play
- be understood by strangers almost all of the time
- be able to generate simple rhymes (e.g. "cat-bat")
- match some letters with their sounds (e.g. "letter T says 'tuh')
