Speech-Language Pathology Resources

Speech-Language Skills

• Startles to loud sounds
• Quiets or smiles to voice 
• Makes pleasure sounds (cooing) 
• Vocalizes or cries for different needs

Feeding Skills

• Takes 2-4 ounces of liquid per feeding
• Takes 6 or more feedings per day 
• Sucks or suckles on a bottle (may lose some liquid from the mouth and tongue may be sticking out slightly)

Speech-Language Skills 

• Babbles 
• Pays attention to and looks toward music and sounds 
• Vocalizes excitement and displeasure

Feeding Skills 

• Takes 4-7 ounces of liquid 
• Takes 4-6 feedings per day 
• Improved coordination when sucking on a bottle, with up to 20 sucks in a row between pauses

Speech-Language Skills 

• ​Smiles
• Babbles
• Pays attention to and looks toward music and sounds
• Vocalizes excitement and displeasure

Feeding Skills 

• ​Takes liquids, infant cereal and pureed foods
• Takes 9-10 ounces of food or liquid per feeding
• Takes 4-6 feedings per day

Speech-Language Skills 

• ​Produces a variety of vowel and consonant sounds in their babble
• Vocalizes during games and songs
• Imitates duplicated syllables (e.g., “bababa”)
• Attends to music, speech and pictures
• Stops or responds to name or “no”

Feeding Skills 

• Takes thicker purees (i.e., Stage 2 baby foods) and mashed table foods
• Readily opens mouth to take food from a spoon
• May suck liquid from an open cup, losing liquid from the mouth and/or occasionally coughing/choking with larger mouthfuls
• Starting to eat simple solids and may move their tongue toward the sides if solids are placed on the molar regions

Speech-Language Skills 

• ​Says 1 or 2 words (e.g., bye-bye, mama, dada)
• Vocalizes with intent frequently
• Imitates more sounds
• Gives objects upon request
• Follows simple commands or routines with gestures or cues
• Enjoys speech games, such as Peek-A-Boo
• Starting to identify basic body parts

Feeding Skills

• ​Can take multiple swallows in a row from an open cup
• Starting to bite into solid food (e.g., soft cookie), breaking off a piece to chew
• Begins independent hand-to-mouth feeding
• May occasionally lose food or saliva from the mouth while chewing

Speech-Language Skills 

• ​Attends to pictures
• Shakes head “no”
• Says or imitates 8 to 10 words
• Follows 1-step directions
• Responds to name

Feeding Skills 

• ​Takes liquids and ground, mashed or coarsely chopped table foods
• Can move solids from the center to the molar regions independently, using their tongue

Speech-Language Skills

• ​Says 15 to 20 words
• Talks more than gesturing
• Asks “What's That?” and “More?”
• Understands 50 words

Feeding Skills

• Does a better job of chewing and swallowing without losing food from the mouth
• Starting to move foods from side-to-side while chewing

Speech-Language Skills 

• ​Identifies a few body parts or clothing items on self
• Uses at 25-50 words
• Understands basic commands and questions (e.g., “Where's your shoe?”)
• Listens to stories, songs and rhymes
• Points to pictures in a book when named
• Frequently uses single words
• Occasionally uses 2-word phrases

Feeding Skills 

• ​Uses controlled, sustained chewing

Speech-Language Skills 

• ​Uses 50-100 different words
• Uses 2-word phrases frequently
• Refers to self by their name
• Follows a 2-step direction (e.g., “Pick up your shoes and bring them to mommy”)
• Can choose 1 object from a group of several items

Feeding Skills 

• ​Able to drink from a cup without losing liquid from the mouth
• Chews and swallows solids without losing food from the mouth
• Regularly moves foods from side-to-side while chewing

Speech-Language Skills 

• Uses 3-word phrases frequently
• Tells you their name
• Asks for help
• Uses negation, such as “no” or “not”
• Uses action words
• Understands “big” and “little”

Speech-Language Skills 

• Matches colors
• Names a few colors
• Answers simple “yes/no”, “what” and “where” questions
• Counts to 3
• Uses sentences to communicate
• Follows a 3-step direction
• Correctly says the following sounds: m, n, ng, p, f, h, w, k, g, b, d and t
• Speech is 70-80% intelligible

Feeding Skills 

• Generally eats the same foods as the rest of the family

Speech-Language Skills 

• ​Speech is 90% intelligible
• Sentences may range 4 to 8 words in length
• Asks and answers a variety of “wh” questions
• Accurately relays a long story
• Starting to use complex sentences
• Starting to use grammatically correct sentences
• Counts to 10