Babies make a variety of vowel sounds, like “oo”, “ah”.
Toddlers & Pre-schoolers
Speech & Language Developmental Milestones
Babies make more sounds, but mostly vowels, like “ooo”, “ah” and start to say some consonant sounds like “aga”, “da”.
Babble sounds like bababa.
A Simple Word like mama and dada.
Starts putting 2 words together like "What's that?"
Consistently uses 2 word combinations with pronouns like 'me go'.
Uses sentences of 3 or more words like 'Daddy driving car'.
Early Intervention Is Key
At Explore My Voice, we see a large number of very young children with little or no speech. We know how to provide effective and fun therapy for your toddler, and we can help you to learn techniques to facilitate your child’s speech at home.
Communication is a tricky concept, and many parents are worried about whether their toddler’s speech, language and comprehension skills are developing normally. Whilst children develop their listening and language skills at different rates, there is a general pattern to their development which can help you determine if your child has reached the right developmental milestones for their age.
A Speech Pathologist will look at different aspects of your child’s communication to evaluate how they are progressing:
• Pronunciation/Articulation - where we focus on how your child says their speech sounds in words.
• Language expression - focuses on what your children says and how they use words.
• Understanding/language comprehension - focuses on how well your child understands instructions as well as language concepts.
• Fluency - focusing on how smoothly and correctly your child speaks without stuttering.
• Pronunciation/Articulation - where we focus on how your child says their speech sounds in words.
• Language expression - focuses on what your children says and how they use words.
• Understanding/language comprehension - focuses on how well your child understands instructions as well as language concepts.
• Fluency - focusing on how smoothly and correctly your child speaks without stuttering.
When To Call For Help?
Early intervention is always preferable. A small delay in a toddler can become a big problem once a preschooler reaches school-age and starts to read and write.
Get in contact and ask for your toddler to be assessed if:
• You are worried about your child’s language comprehension, expression and/or understanding
• You think your child’s understanding is different from other children of the same age
• Your child stutters (no matter what their age)
• Your child’s voice sounds different from other children’s e.g. it sounds hoarse
• Your child’s teacher express concern.
• You are worried about your child’s language comprehension, expression and/or understanding
• You think your child’s understanding is different from other children of the same age
• Your child stutters (no matter what their age)
• Your child’s voice sounds different from other children’s e.g. it sounds hoarse
• Your child’s teacher express concern.
Many parents wonder if their child’s speech is at the right level for their age. Talk to your preschool director about us providing a Speech and Language screening at your child’s Preschool Centre.
It takes a maximum of 15 minutes per pre-schooler. The screener looks at how children are saying words and sounds as well as their comprehension/expression of language. Each parent receives a short report indicating if their child’s performance is what is expected for their age, or if further evaluation is recommended.
This is a great service that you are able to offer the children at your preschool centre. Please contact us to arrange a preschool screening session.