4-5 years
Most 4-year-olds use longer sentences and can describe an event. They understand how things are different, such as the distinction between children and grown-ups. Most 5-year-olds can carry on a conversation with another person.
- Typical speech at 5 years
- Can use many descriptive words spontaneously - both adjectives and adverbs.
- Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-soft, heavy-light, etc.
- Has number concepts of four or more.
- Can count to ten.
- Speech should be completely intelligible, in spite of articulation problems.
- Should know his age.
- Should have simple time concepts: morning, afternoon, night, day, later, after, while.
- Should be using fairly long sentences and should use some compound and some complex sentences.
- Speech on the whole should be grammatically correct.