Speech And Language Development

Conveniently located just off of I-26, MTS Kids’s Spartanburg location provides a comprehensive approach to meeting your child’s unique goals. In Spartanburg, we offer Speech Therapy services.

Milestones

MTSkids provides therapy for the following areas of Speech and Language Development.

Receptive and Expressive Language Processing
Reading Fluency (Lindamood Bell LiPS certified)
Autism Spectrum Disorders
ADHD related learning symptoms
Auditory Processing Therapy
Pragmatics/Social Skills/Peer Groups

Comprehensive Speech and Language Therapy Services

Children reach speech and language milestones at different times, however, there are general guidelines in which children have certain skills. MTSkids provides speech and language therapy for the following areas: Receptive and Expressive Language Processing, Reading Fluency (Lindamood Bell LiPS certified, Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD related learning symptoms, Auditory Processing Therapy, and Pragmatics/Social Skills/Peer Groups.

6-12 Months

At age 6 months, your child…

At age 8 months, your child…

At age 10 months, your child…

At age 12 months, your child…

Recognizes name
Points to objects for you to get or name
Says 2 to 3 words besides “mama” and “dada”
Imitates familiar words
Understands simple instructions
Recognizes words as symbols for objects (for example, hears “car” and points to garage, hears “cat” and “meows”)

12-17 Months

From 12-17 months of age, your child…

Recognizes his or her name
Understands “no”
Understands simple instructions
Points and gestures to call attention to an event or to show wants
Imitates familiar words
Waves good-bye and plays Pat-a-Cake
Uses “mama” and “dada” and several other words, usually nouns
Practices words
Likes to make the “sounds” of familiar animals and things
Gives a toy on request
Laughs a great deal
Hears and discriminates among many sounds
Shows a great deal of affection – makes noises and pats parents affectionately
Places a cube in a cup on command
Scribbles imitatively with a crayon
Attempts to communicate by mixing jargon with real words
Vocalizes for enjoyment

18-24 Months

At age 18 months, your child…

Uses 10 to 20 different words
Recognizes pictures of familiar persons and objects starts to combine 2 words, such as “all gone,” “Daddy bye-bye”
Uses words to make wants known, such as “more,” “up” imitates words and sounds more precisely
Points and gestures to call attention to an event or to show wants
Points to own toes, eyes, and nose
Brings familiar object from another room when asked turns pages of a book a few at a time
Follows simple commands
Makes a tower of 3 to 4 cubes
Knows and says the names of 5 things
Hums and may sing simple tunes
Mixes real words with jargon, on occasion
Develops a play routine
Practices words and word combinations

2 Years

At age 2, your child…

Understands simple questions and commands
Identifies body parts
Uses mainly the names of things, actions, persons, and situations in his or her language
Carries on “conversation” with self and dolls
Asks “what’s this?’”‘what’s that?” and “where’s my … ?”
Sentence length is composed of 2 to 3 words
Refers to self by name
Names pictures and actions
Uses 2-word negative phrases such as “not go,” ‘”not right,” “no want”
Forms some plurals by adding s (such as book, books)
Has around 200 words in speaking vocabulary
Builds an 8-block tower
Asks for drink, toilet, food
Listens to stories and points to pictures when asked
Stays with one activity for 6-7 minutes

At age 2-1/2, your child…

Uses about 450 words
Gives first name
Uses past tense and plurals and combines nouns and verbs
Understands simple time concepts, such as “last night” and “tomorrow” refers to self as “me” rather than by name
Tries to get adult attention (for example, by saying “watch me”)
Likes to hear same story repeated
Uses “no” or “not” in speech and may say “no” when he or she means “yes”
Builds tower of 8 blocks
Talks to other children as well as adults
Begins to control behavior verbally rather than just physically
Answers “where” questions
Can name common pictures and things he or she comes in contact with regularly
Uses short sentences to announce what he or she has done or will like (for example, “Me do it,” or “Me want to jump”)
Matches 3 to 4 colors
Knows the words big and little
Holds up fingers to tell age

3 Years

At age 3, your child…

Matches primary colors, names one color
Knows the words night and day
Uses contractions, such as it’s or there’s
Begins to obey instructions with prepositional phrases, such as “put the block under the chair”
Uses words to relate observations, concepts, ideas, and relationships
Practices new words by talking to self
Knows his or her name, gender, and street name, and several nursery rhymes
Tells simple stories and can convey ideas
Uses sentences of 3 to 4 words
Uses nearly 1,000 words
Can produce consistently the following sounds: m, n, p, f, h, b, and w
May repeat sounds, words, and phrases
Can draw a circle and a vertical line
Can sing songs
Expresses fatigue verbally
Can- stay with one activity for 8 or 9 minute
Asks “what” questions frequently

4 Years

At age 4, your child…

Points to colors red, blue, yellow, and green
Identifies crosses, triangles, circles, and squares
Follows commands even though objects are not present
Can speak of imaginary conditions such as “suppose that … ” or “I hope … “
Asks many questions but is more interested in how answers fit his or her own thoughts than in the explanation
Uses sentences of 4 to 5 words
Asks “who” and “why” questions begins to combine sentences with and
Uses past tense correctly
Copies a line and a circle
Uses the following sounds correctly: m, n, ng, p, f, h, w, y (as in yes), k, b, d, g, t
Stays with one activity for 11 to 12 minutes

5 Years

At age 5, your child…

Defines objects by their use (“you eat with a fork”) and can tell what objects are made of
Knows words for spatia I relations such as on top, behind, far, near, over, and under
Knows his or her address
Identifies a penny, nickel, and dime
Uses sentences of 5 to 6 words
Uses all speech sounds correctly with the possible exceptions of v, l, th, ch, j, s, z, zh (as in measure}, and r
Knows common opposites such as big and little and hard and soft
Understands the words same and different
Counts 10 objects
Tells a story with a simple plot (problem, action to solve problem, and outcome) uses future, present, and past tenses
Stays with one activity for 12 to 13 minutes.
Asks questions to get information
Distinguishes own but not other people’s left and right hands
Uses all types of sentences, some of which will be complex (for example, “I can go in the house after I take· off my muddy shoes.”)

6 Years

At age 6, your child…

Has correct articulation of most speech sounds
May still have difficulties with clusters such as spl or tr
Uses adult-like grammar in sentences and conversations
Understands the meanings of most sentences
Names days of week in order and counts to 30
Predicts the next sequence of events and
Tells a 4-to 5-part story tells month and day of birthday, name, and address
Distinguishes left and right
Knows most opposites and the meaning of through, away, toward, and from
Knows the meaning of today, yesterday, and tomorrow
Asks lots of “why,” “what,” and “how” questions
Is beginning to read simple words like cat, the, and ball
Is starting to recognize that individual letters in words represent different sounds that form words when put together (for example, c-a-t for “cat“)

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