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12 Months Old
Understanding: Does your child
Understand about 10 words
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Respond to their name by looking or turning
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Recognise greetings and gestures, such as ‘hi’ and ‘bye-bye’
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Use sounds and gestures, and say at least one word
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Speaking: Does your child
Babble frequently
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Copy different sounds and noises
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Eating and Drinking: Does your child
Feed themselves some finger foods (e.g. toast, cheese sticks, small pieces of banana) wihtout coughing or gagging
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Eat many of the same foods as the rest of the family (cooked and cut into small pieces)
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Drink from an open cup with help to hold and tip it and from a straw cup by themselves
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18 Months Old
Understanding: Does your child
Understand up to 50 words and some short phrases
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Follow simple instructions (eg ‘throw the ball’)
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Point to familiar objects or pictures when named
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Follow familiar 2 step instructions (e.g. Get the cup and give it to me)
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Speaking: Does your child
Say 20 single words spontaneously - some words may still be unclear
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Copy lots of words and noises
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Name a few body parts
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Use objects in pretend play (eg hold toy phone to their ear and say ‘hello’)
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Eating and Drinking: Does your child
Eat most of the same foods as the rest of the family (cooked and cut into small pieces)
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Eat without needing lots of distraction
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Use their fingers to feed themself and to explore food (it might be very messy!)
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Drink from and open cup with help and from a straw cup by themselves
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2 Years Old
Understanding: Does your child
Follow more complex two part instructions (e.g. get the teddy and give him a drink.’)
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Respond to simple wh-questions (e.g. ‘what's that’ and ‘where's teddy?’)
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Point to several body parts and pictures in books when named
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Understand location words like 'in' and 'on'
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Speaking: Does your child
Say at least 60 single words (some words might still be unclear)
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Speak clearly enough so that other people can understand them about half the timet least 60 single words (some words might still be unclear)
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Put two words together (eg ‘Mummy go’, ‘no ball’)
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Use most vowel sounds and a variety of consonants (m, n, p, b, h, w, t, d)
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Play and social skills: Does your child
Use pretend play with some toys (e.g. kiss a teddy and put him to bed)
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Play near others and let them join in with play
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Eating and Drinking: Does your child
Eat most of the same food as the rest of the family including meats without coughing or gagging
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Drink from an open cup with some help
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Feed themselves
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3 Years Old
Understanding: Does your child
Follow more complex two part instructions e.g. get the teddy and give him a drink
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Understand simple wh-questions, such as what, where and who
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Understand the concepts of same and different
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Sort items into groups (e.g. food, clothes, transport)
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Recognise some basic colours
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Speaking: Does your child
Speak without stuttering
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Say four to five words in a sentence eg My dolly likes eating porridge
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Use a variety of words for names, actions, locations and descriptions
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Ask questions using what, where and who
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Have a vocabulary of at least 500 words
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Use a range of sounds including p, b, m, t, d, n, k, g plus all vowels
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Speak clearly enough for other people to understand them about 75% of the time
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Social: Does your child
Join in conversations, but may not take turns or stay on topic
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Readily play with other children their age
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Eating and Drinking: Does your child
Eat all the same foods as the rest of the family without coughing or gagging
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Drink from an open cup without help
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No
Feed themselves
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Try out new foods
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4 Years Old
Language and pre-literacy: Does your child
Retell past events in a simple way (e.g. what happened at preschool)
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No
Use all pronouns including his, hers, himself and herself
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Use sentences that are at least 5 words long
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Join sentences using words like "and" and "because"
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Listen to a story and answer questions about what they have heard?
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Understand a range of concepts such as size (big, little, long, short), location (in, on, under, behind, next to) and quantity (all, none)
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Recognise their name and hold a book the right way?
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Speech: Does your child
Say the following sounds when talking? ( h, w, ng, m, n, p, k, t, g, d, b, y, f, l, sh, ch, j, s, z)
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Say longer words with lots of syllables eg spaghetti bolognaise, hospital
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Speak clearly enough to be easily understood by unfamiliar people all the time
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Social: Does your child
Start, end and stay in conversations without help
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5 Years Old
Language: Does your child
Follow three part instructions (e.g., put on your shoes, get your backpack and line up outside)
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Understand time related words (e.g., ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘last’)
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Use long sentences that sound correct and make sense
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Talk clearly about things that have happened or that they are going to do
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Understand most instructions without repetition or help
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Recognise some letters, sounds, and familiar signs around them
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Speech: Does your child
Speak without stuttering?
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Use all speech sounds correctly except 'th'
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Speak clearly enough to be easily understood by other people all the time
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Social: Does your child
Easily interact with a range of people including adults and children
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6 Years Old
Language: Does your child
Answer more abstract questions like "what might happen next?" "how does he feel?" Why does he feel like that?"
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Describe how words are related eg opposites, synonymns, words from the same category (eg animals).
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Understand and retell long stories, withe events in the correct order?
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Say all sounds correctly except 'th'
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Speak without stuttering
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Have a wide vocabulary and use the correct specific words (not 'thing, stuff, you know...')
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Literacy: Does your child
Read lots of letters/sounds?
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Tell you the first or last sound in words
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Read and write 3 sound words eg "cat, pot"
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Recognise lots of familiar words e.g. Mum, Dad, school, the
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Social: Does your child
Easily interact with a range of people including adults and children
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7 Years Old
Speech and Language: Does your child
Use correct grammar when talking
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Use complex conjunctions like 'but', 'before', 'after'?
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Have a wide vocabulary and use the correct specific words (not 'thing, stuff, you know...')
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Talk about past and future events and easily have conversations?
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Listen to long stories and then retell the story in the correct order?
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Easily maintain social interactions with others their age?
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Speak without stuttering?
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Use all sounds correctly (including 'th') and be easily understood all of the time
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Literacy: Does your child
Read all letter-sounds quickly and correctly?
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Spell lots of familiar words correctly and sound out new words
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Read simple books and sound out new words when reading
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Understand short books that they read
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8 Years Old
Speech and Language: Does your child
Use past irregular tense (went, flew), irregular plurals (mice, children) and future tense (will go)?
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No
Use conjunctions like 'if' 'that', 'unless'?
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Understand and explain word relationships (synonyms, antonyms, categories)?
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Tell stories with a clear introduction, problem and conclusion?
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Understand and retell long stories that are easy to follow
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Say all sounds clearly and be understood all of the time
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Easily maintain social interactions with others their age and readily make new friends
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Literacy: Does your child
Read all letter-sounds quickly and correctly?
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Read appropriately for their age, including books
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Write the letters for most sounds including trickier sounds like sh, th, ee, ow
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Identify all sounds within a word and make attempts at spelling unfamiliar words?
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Sound out unfamiliar words when reading?
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Read and understand longer texts?
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9 - 10 Years Old
Is your child speaking clearly, without stuttering or difficulty pronouncing any sounds?
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Is your child following instructions and solving problems in Maths?
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Is your child able to read at an age appropriate level and read fluently?
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Is your child able to analyse and explain what they have read?
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Is your child spelling longer words correctly and knows spelling rules?
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Easily maintain social interactions with others their age and readily make new friends
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Is your child writing without any difficulty?
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Write a range of different texts including stories, reports and discussions that are easy to follow and understand
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Understand some sayings and slang words
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Use long and complex sentences and is able to clearly explain the meanings of words
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Understand instructions in the classroom and learn new information easily
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