Hearing Assessments

• Sudden loud noises should stir or wake a sleeping baby or startle/alert an awake baby.
•  Quieten to sounds of familiar voices.

3 to 6 Months

• Turns to the side of a sound or voice but can't yet localise up or down.
• Cooing sounds commence.
• Babbling, combining consonants and vowels (ba, da, ga, goo, etc) commences.

• Babbling increases (babababa, lalalala, etc)
• Looks for sounds or voices that are out of sight.
• Responds to music.
• Enjoys sounds from rattles and noisy toys.

• Understands some individual words (eg. such as mummy, daddy, no) by 10 months.
• Uses mamma and/or dada appropriately.
• Responds to simple (one-step) commands/questions? (eg. where's teddy? or come here)

• Says 1 or 2 words other than mamma/dada.

• Has a vocabulary of at least 20 words
• Can point to 1 body part

• Says at least 50 words
• Combines 2 words (eg. mummy go; more juice)
• Refers to self by name
• Follows 2-step commands (eg. get the block and put it in the bucket)
• Can identify at least 6 body parts.

• Uses at least 200 words
• Uses some pronouns (me, you, he, she) but may get them confused
• Speech is understood by most people some of the time
• Speaks in small phrases

• Uses at least 300 words
• Uses pronouns correctly
• Can put 2 or 3 phrases together
• Speech understood by most people most of the time
• Can follow 2 step instructions using prepositions (eg. put the block on the table next to the book)