Developmental Norms
As we are working with children in a variety of settings it is important to know what is considered in the normal range of development in the area of communication.
This link is a fairly comprehensive look at general development of a child, including communication, physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development. A nice overview of what kind of growth is typically developing together.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/parents_pdfs/milestonemomentseng508.pdf
The following link is a great resource that addresses four aspects of language knowledge (pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and phonology) broken down into age ranges of infant - five years of age. It has the added benefit of addressing how international adoption affects language development.
http://www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/phonology/milestones.pdf
The following link is a great collection of a wide variety of developmental norms regarding many aspects of concern for speech and language development.
http://www.linguisystems.com/pdf/Milestonesguide.pdf
*pg 4 deals with feeding milestones from newborn through age three
*pg 5 provides a detailed look at the first year of development of prelinguistic vocalizations
*pg 6 outlines expected age of phoneme development
*pgs 7 and 8 has a chart for phonological patterns in typical development
*pg 9 has a chart for the percentage of language that is typically intelligible at ages from one and a half - five years of age
*pg 9 also has a chart for pronoun acquisition
*pg 10 deals with morphology development
*pg 11 outlines the expected Mean Length of Utterance by age
*pg 12 deals with pragmatic or social language
*pg 18 has a chart of expected number of expressive vocabulary words
The following link has a very simple and easy to understand chart for families to use that refers to both expressive and receptive language.
http://www.appletoneducationfoundation.org/events/Documents/Developmental_Milestones_List.pdf
This link has a section for hearing, speech, language, and cognition for birth through age eight.
http://firstyears.org/miles/chart.htm
The following links are from ASHA (American Speech-Language Hearing Association). Note at the bottom of the chart the section "What Can I do to Help?" It is geared toward what parents can do to support language development with their child.
Birth - One http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/01.htm
One - Two http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/12.htm
Two - Three http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/23.htm
Three - Four http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/34.htm
Four - Five http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/45.htm
This link is a fairly comprehensive look at general development of a child, including communication, physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development. A nice overview of what kind of growth is typically developing together.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/pdf/parents_pdfs/milestonemomentseng508.pdf
The following link is a great resource that addresses four aspects of language knowledge (pragmatics, semantics, syntax, and phonology) broken down into age ranges of infant - five years of age. It has the added benefit of addressing how international adoption affects language development.
http://www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/phonology/milestones.pdf
The following link is a great collection of a wide variety of developmental norms regarding many aspects of concern for speech and language development.
http://www.linguisystems.com/pdf/Milestonesguide.pdf
*pg 4 deals with feeding milestones from newborn through age three
*pg 5 provides a detailed look at the first year of development of prelinguistic vocalizations
*pg 6 outlines expected age of phoneme development
*pgs 7 and 8 has a chart for phonological patterns in typical development
*pg 9 has a chart for the percentage of language that is typically intelligible at ages from one and a half - five years of age
*pg 9 also has a chart for pronoun acquisition
*pg 10 deals with morphology development
*pg 11 outlines the expected Mean Length of Utterance by age
*pg 12 deals with pragmatic or social language
*pg 18 has a chart of expected number of expressive vocabulary words
The following link has a very simple and easy to understand chart for families to use that refers to both expressive and receptive language.
http://www.appletoneducationfoundation.org/events/Documents/Developmental_Milestones_List.pdf
This link has a section for hearing, speech, language, and cognition for birth through age eight.
http://firstyears.org/miles/chart.htm
The following links are from ASHA (American Speech-Language Hearing Association). Note at the bottom of the chart the section "What Can I do to Help?" It is geared toward what parents can do to support language development with their child.
Birth - One http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/01.htm
One - Two http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/12.htm
Two - Three http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/23.htm
Three - Four http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/34.htm
Four - Five http://www.asha.org/public/speech/development/45.htm