Speech and Language:
Receptive Language
- Understands simple who, what, where questions
- Identifies colors and categories (e.g., food and clothing)
- Can follow simple directions, even if stimulus objects are not in sight
Expressive Language:
- Talks about events that have happened in the past
- Expresses ideas and feelings
- Uses sentences with 4 or more words
Articulation:
- Beginning to correctly produce k, g, d, t, and ing
- May distort difficult sounds such as l, r, s, sh, ch, y, v, z, and th
- Strangers usually understand child’s speech
Play/ Social Development
- Being turn taking
- Enjoy brief group activities
- Children can discuss an activity, assign roles, or take turns (cooperative play)
- Likes to “help” in small ways
- Highly imaginative (make believe)
Occupational Therapy:
Fine/Visual Motor Skills:
- Uses tripod or quadruped grasp
- Colors within the lines
- Copies shapes (circle, square, triangle, and X)
- Beginning to copy upper case letters
- Cuts along a line
- Imitate 3-dimensional block designs
Gross Motor Skills:
- Jumps forward 26 inches
- Can stand on one leg for 4-6 seconds
- Beginning to skip and hop
- Walks up and down stairs independently (alternating feet)
Self-help Skills
- Feeds using fork and spoon
- Unbuttons buttons
- Attempts to brush teeth
- Toileting independently
- Dresses self independently (help with fasteners)
- Able to bathe self except hair
Cognition:
- Uses imaginary objects in play
- Categorizes and sorts objects
- Understands common dangers
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