Expressive Language Developmental Milestones

According to ASHA and Brown's Developmental Stages, below are the expressive language milestones.

Babbles long strings of sounds, like mimi upup babababa.
Uses sounds and gestures to get and keep attention.
Points to objects and shows them to others.
Uses gestures like waving bye, reaching for “up,” and shaking his head no.
Imitates different speech sounds.
Says 1 or 2 words, like hi, dog, dada, mama, or uh-oh. This will happen around his first birthday, but sounds may not be clear.

Uses one-, two-, and sometimes three-word utterances e.g., “more apple,” “no bed,” and “mommy book.”
Uses intonation to ask yes/no questions.
Uses a lot of new words.
Uses p, b, m, h, and w in words.
Starts to name pictures in books.
Asks questions, like “What’s that?”, “Who’s that?”, and “Where’s kitty?”
Puts 2 words together, like

Increases in length of words due to use of auxiliaries (is, be etc.).
Increases use of wh– questions.
Uses interrogative reversals (e.g., “Can I go,” “Is it,” etc.).
Answers simple who, what, and where questions.
Says rhyming words, like hat–cat.
Uses pronouns, like I, you, me, we, and they.
Uses some plural words, like toys, birds, and buses.
Uses some present progressive words like crying, jumping.
Uses some possessive words like girl’s hat.
Most people understand what your child says.
Asks when and how questions.
Puts 4 words together but may overgeneralize the past tense words, like “I goed to school.”
Talks about what happened during the day. Uses about 4 sentences at a time.

Uses locatives (e.g., up, down).
Uses 'and' as main conjunction.
Says all speech sounds in words. May make mistakes on sounds that are harder to say, like l, s, r, v, z, ch, sh, and th.
Responds to “What did you say?”
Talks without repeating sounds or words most of the time.
Names letters and numbers.
Uses sentences that have more than 1 action word, like jump, play, and get. May make some mistakes, like “Zach gots 2 video games, but I got one.”
Tells a short story.
Keeps a conversation going.
Talks in different ways, depending on the listener and place. Your child may use short sentences with younger children. He may talk louder outside than inside.