Thursday, September 09, 2010 |
By 60 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 60 months of age, most children will:
- follow group directions (e.g. "All the boys get a toy")
- understand directions involving "if-then" (e.g. "If you're wearing runners, then line up for gym")
- describe past, present and future events in detail
- seek to please his/her friends
- show increasing independence in friendships (e.g. may visit neighbour by him/herself)
- use almost all of the sounds of their language with few to no errors
- know all the letters of the alphabet
- identify the sounds at the beginning of some words (e.g. "Pop starts with the 'puh' sound")
