Speech and language: Typical development for age groups
Guidance for practitioners of children 11+ Key Stage 3
The resources below will provide you with information on what to expect a young person to be doing in their communication development according to their age.
- Typical Talk (PDF) is a secondary poster from the Speech and Language UK charity displaying useful summary of ages and stages of language and communication development for secondary aged pupils
- The Speech and Language UK charity booklet (PDF) 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 11+ years.
- Some schools find the Speech and Language UK charity: Progression Tools Secondary and the Wellcomm: The complete speech and language toolkit, from screening to intervention helpful resources to buy
If you want to know what you can do to help a child move on to their next steps, or are concerned about a little ones’ communication development, have a chat with your child’s education setting, and take a look at what you can do to support a child/young person's speech, language or communication development.
If you think a referral to Speech and Language Therapy is needed, you can find more information on how to refer a child or young person to Speech and Language Therapy.