3 Years

By 3 years of age, your child should have mastered the following sounds: /p, b, t, d, m, w, n, h, f/

Uses more and more developing sounds in speech

Your child should be 80% intelligible to unknown listeners

Your child says final consonants

Can follow a command 

Understands most sentences

Understands prepositions such as, “on,” “under,” or “in” regarding placement

Recognizes and can identify most common objects and/or pictures

Follows 2-step directions

Can understand the different meanings including “stop/go,” “up/down,” “little/big”

Can understand words for shapes and colors

Knows name and age

Uses 4- to 5-word sentences

Identifies common objects

Uses pronouns such as, “I,” “me,” “we,” “you,” and “they”

Uses some plural words when describing objects

Uses prepositions such as, “in,” “on,” and “under”

Asks “who?” and “why?” questions

Answers simple “who?,” “why?,” “when?, and “how?” questions

Uses rhyming words

Can answer questions about functions of objects such as “what do you do with a key?”