12 to 24 months
At Chatterbox we want the best for your child. Our speech therapists and speech pathologists are kind and caring. They are passionate about working with children and helping your child to realise their true potential – with 5 clinics across Sydney in Rosehill, Bella Vista, Oran Park, Kingswood and Penrith.
Our speech pathology clinics provide a warm friendly environment where your child’s needs will be supported and their gains will be celebrated. All of our Speech Pathologists and speech therapists share a passion for working with children and families to best support their learning goals.
Receptive Language
- Identifies common objects and pictures (e.g. points to common pictures in books or picks them up from a group of obects on the floor)
- Identifies common body parts
- Responds to “NO”, “wait”, “stop” (even if only briefly!)
- Understands common simple directions which involve words such as:
- Give it to me
- Show it to me
- Point to it
- Where is it?
- Put it down
- Pick it up
- Understands common simple directions which involve words such as:
- Understand simple “what’s that?” questions
- Responds to “NO”, “wait”, “stop” (even if only briefly!)
- Understands common simple directions which involve words such as:
Expressive Language
- Copies and imitates a lot of actions (like jumping, hand actions in nursery rhymes)
- Copies and imitates lots of common words
- Holds out toys or other objects to show people
- Uses vocalisations to ask for things
- Babble short strings which sounds almost like real words and sentences
- Uses 50-200 words by 2 years
- Combining 2 or more words together (e.g. “more ball”, “no mum”, “give me”, “put down truck”)
- Label photos of objects
- By 2yrs of age using words more often then gestures
- Non-family members can understand 50-75% of the childs speech by 2yrs of age
References:
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