Language+Development-+5year+olds

 What is the e xpected speech and language of 5 year olds?

5 years old:  ¨ Can use many descriptive words spontaneously-both adjectives and adverbs  ¨ Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-soft, heave-light, etc  ¨ Has number concepts of 4 or more  ¨ Can count to ten  ¨ Speech should be completely intelligible, in spite of articulation problem  ¨ Should have all vowels and the consonants, m,p,b,h,w,k,g,t,d,n,ng,y (yellow)  ¨ Should be able to repeat sentences as long as nine words  ¨ Should be able to define common objects in terms of use (hat, shoe, chair)  ¨ Should be able to follow three commands given without interruptions  ¨ Should know his age  ¨ Should have simple time concepts: morning, afternoon, night, day, later, after, while, tomorrow, yesterday, today  ¨ Should be using fairly long sentences and should use some compound and some complex sentences > [] > >  >
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