Friday, February 11, 2011

Speech-Language Milestones

I had received this paperwork from Grace's doctor about milestones, and usually, I've shied away from milestones because I know how behind she is, and they only seem to upset me more than anything! But I thought I would let everyone know where she is with her milestones, as there's some people that might be wondering how she's doing with that.

Birth-3 months
  • At 1 month, baby can discriminate among individual speech sounds (yes)
  • Reflexive cries, vegetative cries (yes)
  • Makes pleasure sounds (yes)
  • Cries differently for different needs (yes)
  • Smiles when sees a person (yes)
3-6 Months
  • Can discriminate among sequences of sounds (yes)
  • Variety of vocalizations significantly increase (yes)
  • Repeats the same sounds (yes)
  • Transitional or marginal babbling single-syllable or consonant-like sounds (yes)
  • Babbling sounds more speech-like with many different sounds, including "p, b, & m" (yes)
  • Vocalizes excitement and displeasure (yes)
  • makes gurgling sounds when left alone and when playing (yes)
  • Uses sounds and gestures to indicate wants (yes)
10 Months
  • First words emerge (not till 15 months with "Daddy")
  • Imitates different speech sounds (yes)
  • Has one to three words like bye-bye, mommy, daddy (no)
  • Understands "no" and "hot" (no)
  • responds to simple requests (no)
  • Understands/responds to own name. (yes)
  • Uses song like intonation pattern when babbling (yes)
  • Uses echolalia (yes)
  • Variegated babbling "dadu" (no)
  • Jargon babbling "intonational changes added to syllable production" (no)
  • Uses speech sounds rather than cries to get attention (no)
  • Uses nouns almost exclusively (no)
there are more ages, but I will stop there as the next group of it was for 18-24 months, and she's only 17 months.

Language Milestones:
Birth-3 Months
  • Eye widening, eye blink, startles to sound (yes)
  • Eye widening, eye shift, eye blink, quieting, beginning head turns by 4 months (yes)
3-6 Months
  • Head turn on lateral plane toward sounds, listening, attitude (a little late but yes)
  • responds to changes in tone of voice (yes)
  • Notices toys make sounds (yes)
  • Pays attention to music (yes)
6-12 Months
  • Direct localization of sounds to side, directly below ear level, indirectly above ear level. (yes)
  • Understands and responds to simple commands (no, not till about 13 months)
  • Enjoys games like peek-a-boo (no, not till about 16 months)
  • Listens when spoken to (yes)
  • Recognizes common words for items like "cup," "shoe," and "juice" (no, not till about 14 months)
  • Begins to respond to requests like, "come here," and "want more?" (no, not till about 13 months
12-24 Months
  • Direct localization of sounds on side, above and below (yes)
  • Points to a few body parts when asked (no, just learned nose at 16 months)
  • Follows simple commands and understands simple questions (yes, at 16 months)
  • Points to pictures in a book when named (16 months, but you had to have labeled them for about a week every single day and during that specific time in order for her to remember)
  • Enjoys listening to simple stories, songs and rhymes (yes!)
Language Development Milestones: ASL
Birth-3 Months
  • Fingermovements evolve into rule-governing fingerbabbling (no)
  • At 3 months, fingerbabbling invreases, and baby attends to faces, movements, and signs (no)
3-6 Months
  • Fingerbabbling increases (no)
  • Visual attention increases (yes)
  • Fingerspells to self (no)
  • Makes facial expressions (no)
  • fixates to face (yes)
  • fingerbabbles back to conversations (no)
6-12 months
  • Uses syllabic manual babbling and manual jargon to self and objects (no)
  • First sign reported at 8 months, first sign signs "frozen" with no inflections (no, not till about 13 months)
  • Distinguishes facial expressions "anger, friendliness" when accompanied with appropriate behavior (still learning this at 17 months)
  • Communicates with gestures, pointing and pulling (yes)
  • Produces some meaningful communications (no)
  • Responds to simple commands, questions and statements (no, just starting to respond at 17 months)
  • uses some "true signs" to satisfy needs or wants (at 15 months she signed "More")
12 Months
  • ASL sign babbling (no)
  • Uses baby signs (no, just started to at 15 months)
  • One word signs include nonlinguistic pointing (no, not till about 13 months with the pointing)
12-24 Months
  • Manual jargon babbling continues (no)
  • First 10 signs produced (at 17 months she knows more, eat, all done, bye bye, blow kiss, dog, baby, yeah and book...so 9 of them!)
  • Passes 50-sign milestone (not yet!)
  • Follows simple commands and statements (not in sign, but does understand "come here," "wave byebye/hello," "blow kisses," and is learning "give hug."
  • Understands names for things in environment (she knows "dog" and "tree." And even though that's it, we're still working on it!)
  • Expands vocabulary from about 5 words to more than 250. (she knows daddy, tree, ruff ruff for dog, wow, what, and out.) But we are working on this every day.
  • Enter 2-word stage with full range of semantic relation s at 2-sign stage. (at 17 months she's just started learning "daddy out." That's all we've been working on for now, as we don't want her to get confused with too many 2-word phrases.
  • Sign order shows semantic relations (no. When we go outside she signs "dog" when she sees or hears it."
  • Uses facial adverbs "puff, mm, th" (just uses mm at 1 7 months)

Amanda

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