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Is your child meeting his/her milestones?
Birth to 6 months
- your child does not smile or seem interested in interacting with you.
- your child does not respond to the sound of your voice
- your child is not cooing or making sounds
- your child has difficulty sucking or swallowing
6 months to 12 months
- your child does not make sounds or babble
- your child does not repeat same syllables (mama, dada)
- your child does not demonstrate an increased understanding of daily routines.
-- at one year has not spoken at least one true word
- your child has difficulties progressing to textured foods
12 months to 18 months
- your child has difficulty following simple commands
- your child cannot identify objects, body parts or pictures in a book
- your child is not acquiring new words on a regular basis
- by 18 months, your child is not putting two-word phrases together
- your child does not use at least 15 words by 18 months
- your child chokes, gags or vomits during meals
- your child drools all the time
18 months to 24 months
- your child does not use words to request most of the time or your child does not produce more than 15 words.
- your child does not use some two-word questions "where daddy?"
- your child does not use two-word phrases most of the time.
- your child does not use a variety of consonants at the beginning of words including /t/, /d/, /n/, and /h/.
- your child does not use at least one pronoun "mine”
- your child is a "picky eater," or does not eat foods from each food group.
- your child gags, chokes or vomits while eating or drinking.
- your child drools all the time
24 months
- your child does not use at least 50 words
- your child is not able to follow a two-step command ("Get the spoon and give the baby doll a drink.")
- your child does not pretend play in two step sequences (pretends to give a doll a drink and wipe its mouth)
- your child chokes, gags or vomits during meals
- your child drools all the time
- your child does not eat from all food groups or is a "picky eater."
36 months
- your child does not produce at least 500 words or use sentences to communicate
- your child has difficulty answering "wh" questions
- your child is not using plurals, past tense verbs or pronoun "I."
- your child is not 80% intelligible to all listeners
- your child does not articulate final consonants or words
- your child chokes, gags or vomits during meals
- your child drools all the time
- your child does not eat from all food groups or is a "picky eater."
4 years
- your child has difficulty following multi-step directions
- your child has difficulty telling about experiences in sequences
- your child is not 100% intelligible to all listeners
- your child chokes, gags or vomits during meals
- your child drools all the time
- your child does not eat from all food groups or is a "picky eater."
5 years
-your child doesn’t have an expressive vocabulary of 2,000 words
-your child cannot tell a story including a beginning, middle and end
-your child cannot define objects by their use and talk about the features (size, shape, composition)
-your child is not 100% intelligible to all listeners
-your child chokes, gags or vomits during meals
-your child drools all the time
-your child doesn’t eat all food groups or is a "picky eater."
Warning signs your child may have a delay in his speech, language or feeding skills:
