Developmental Norms for Speech and Language
This is a collective resource of norms and milestones for speech-language development. SLPs are often asked questions regarding typical age of sound acquisition and development of language. This information will help to answer those questions and provides resources to share with parents and colleagues.
- ASHA's Developmental Milestones: Birth to 5 Years
- Building Your Child's Listening, Talking, Reading and Writing Skills: Kindergarten through Second Grade [PDF]
- Building Your Child's Listening, Talking, Reading and Writing Skills: Third Grade through Fifth Grade [PDF]
- Identify the Signs of Communication Disorders
- Social Communication Benchmarks — Lists of typical benchmarks from birth into adulthood
- Speech Sound Disorders — Information about articulation and phonological process development, includes a speech sound acquisition chart.
ASHA Products
- Beyond Baby Talk — This book by Kenn Apel and Julie Masterson answers questions and covers the stages of speech and language development during the first years of a child's life.
- Talking on the Go — This book shows how everyday activities can be used to help develop speech and language skills.
ASHA Publications
- Predicting Language Difficulties in Middle Childhood From Early Developmental Milestones: A Comparison of Traditional Regression and Machine Learning Techniques from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Using Developmental Norms for Speech Sounds as a Means of Determining Treatment Eligibility in Schools from Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups
- What the Evidence Does (and Does Not) Show for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Child Development Milestones: An Illustrative Example Using Expressive Vocabulary from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Related Resources
- CDC’s Developmental Milestones
- Expressive Language Development by Caroline Bowen
- Receptive Language Development by Caroline Bowen
- Typical Speech and Language Acquisition in Infants and Young Children by Caroline Bowen
- Speech and Language Milestone Chart from Pro-Ed, Inc.
- Speech and Language Developmental Milestones from NIDCD
Resources listed on this page are not all-inclusive nor exhaustive. Inclusion of non-ASHA publications does not imply endorsement by ASHA.
