Speech and Language Development

6 -7 years

Articulation/Speech:

• Consonants mastered: m, n, w, h, ing, y, b, p, t, d, k, g, f, v, l, sh, ch, th, r, s, z, r-blends, s-blends, l-blends

Receptive Language:

• Has a receptive vocabulary of approximately 20,000 words
• Understands ‘left’ and ‘right’
• Engages in conversations
• Understands most concepts of time

Expressive Language:

• Names some letters, numbers and currencies
• Sequences numbers
• Uses increasingly more complex descriptions
• Uses a sentence length of approximately 6 words
• Recites the alphabet
• Counts to 100 by rote
• Uses most morphologic markers appropriately
• Uses passive voice appropriately

Basic Motor Milestones:

• Shows reduced interest in writing and drawing
• Draws recognizable man, tree, and house
• Uses adult like writing, but it is slow and labored
• Draws pictures that are not proportional
• Colors within lines
• Indicates well established right or left handedness
• Dresses self completely
• Follows advanced rhythms