Speech Developmental Sequence 24-36 Months

Between the ages of 24 months and 36 months, baby will begin vocalizing for all his needs, use longer and longer sentences, begin using pronouns (you, mine, me, etc), use past tense phrases and words, use size words, participating in storytelling, etc. He may have an expressive vocabulary of 200 or more words and be able to say many sentences to describe his experiences or ask for things he needs. By the time baby is 3 years old, her vocabulary has increased to over 1000 words and she is able to manipulate and use those words to get her needs met, to express her desires, to negate things, to ask questions and to describe her experiences.

Some suggestions to help baby to develop and use their language in the context of their every day lives are:

• Be patient and provide time and opportunity for child to use their language
• Expand on baby’s vocabulary by using descriptive words
• Read books to your child and provide books for your child to read independently
• Point things out to your child when you are shopping or traveling
• Laugh together making funny noises
• Practice mouth exercises to improve oral motor muscles and articulation
• Place emphasis on either beginning or ending sounds of words to improve pronunciation
• Sing songs and tell nursery rhymes to promote language development
• Participate in conversations with your child and express interest in their ideas
• Ask question that require a choice and short answer questions
• Use pronouns descriptively (“My blue ball”), and prepositions in your language (“The ball is on the table”, “The ball is under the table”, etc.)
• Allow your child to participate in storytelling sessions



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