Overview
Children learn language according to specific ages and stages. As communication develops sometimes children experience challenges. Is your child talking like other children the same age? Check our simple Communication Checklist to find out.
Read about speech and language developmental milestones, how to make everyday routines into language learning opportunities and what are the best ways to encourage speech and language at each stage of a child’s development.
Communication Milestones
As children learn to interact and communicate with others they reach different milestones at different ages.
Speech Sound Development
As adults, we often feel that it is easy to say all of the speech sounds correctly, and that young children who don’t do so might be lazy, or have just developed bad habits.
Ages and Stages
Service Providers
- H. A. Leeper Speech and
Hearing Clinic
Elborn College,
Western University
1201 Western Rd
London, Ontario N6G 1H1
(519) 661-2001 - Thames Valley Children’s
Centre (TVCC)
779 Baseline Road E.
London, Ontario N6C 5Y6
(519) 685-8700 - TVCC Strathroy tykeTALK
Satellite Site
82 Frank Street
Strathroy, Ontario N7G 2R6
(519) 245-0999 - TVCC Elgin tykeTALK
Satellite Site
34 Churchill Crescent
St. Thomas, Ontario N5R 1N9
(519) 633-6388 - Woodstock Hospital
310 Juliana Drive
Woodstock, Ontario N4V 0A4
(519) 421-4200