Hearing & Understanding

• Answers Who, What, Where, and Why questions
• Understands the concepts of “same” and “different”
• Follows 3 step directions (go upstairs, get your shirt, and put it in the laundry)
• Understands quantitative concepts (one, some, rest, all)
• Understands negatives (which baby is NOT crying)
• Understands color and shape
• Understands spatial concepts (under, next to, in front, behind, etc)

Talking

• Uses full, 4-6 word sentences (compound and complex)
• Is fully intelligible to strangers by age 4
• Asks How, Why and When questions
• Can tell a short story about activities of their day
• Begins to use past tense words, and a variety of tenses (jump, jumps, jumped, jumping)
• Uses the following sounds correctly: m, n, h, w, p, b, y, t, d, k, g, f
• Understands negatives (which bear is not jumping)