Speech and language: Typical development for age groups
Guidance for practitioners
Here are some resources to give you an idea of what you might expect a young person to be doing in their communication development according to their age.
- You may find the Speech and Language UK charity booklet helpful. It gives advice and guidance on how to encourage communication in children and young people, explain what children will likely be doing at a given age and give top tips for what you can do as a practitioner and in a setting, universally speaking birth to 5 years and 5 to 11 years
- Some Early Settings find the Speech and Language UK charity: Progression Tools Early Years Set or the Wellcomm: The complete speech and language toolkit, from screening to intervention helpful resources
If you want to know what you can do to help your little one move on to their next steps or are concerned about a little ones’ communication development, have a chat with your health visitor or Early years setting, and take a look at what can you do to support a child or young person's speech, language or communication development?'
