Phonological Development

•Uses sentence-like intonations. This means they are starting to vary their pitch when they speak. They ask questions by raising intonations at the end of a phrase.

•Some echolalia- repetition of speech by a child learning to speak. They repeat it, but they don’t understand what it means so they don’t retain it.

•Can use some words in the correct context, but you cannot understand the majority of what they say.

•Omits final consonants and some initial consonants- clips the beginning or end off of a word eg. Playin’ or ‘tory. They are simplifying constant clusters. Adults also do this.

•They want to pair vowels with consonants eg. Bubble not splash.

•Accurately imitate some words

•65% of what they say is understood by the time they are two.

•By the age of two, they are starting to structure things like consonant, vowel constant instead of consonant, vowel. For example, saying ‘hot’ instead of ‘ho’