Did you know that Williamsville Pediatrics shares space with Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists at our new location?  Having these specialty areas right in our building is a great benefit for our young patients and their families.  In each newsletter, our neighbors from Hearing Evaluation Services and the Hearing and Speech Center of WNY will be sending helpful hints regarding your child's hearing or speech language development. We hope that you enjoy!

What to expect as your child learns speech sounds

• Birth - 3 months:  
  • Makes pleasure sounds, cries differently for different needs
• 4-6 months:           
  • Babbling sounds more speech-like, vocalizes excitement and displeasure
• 7 months - 1 year:  
  • Babbling has both long and short groups of sounds and your child will imitate different speech sou
  • Uses speech or non-crying sounds to get and keep attent
  • Has one or two words, although they may not be clear
• 1 - 2 years: 
  • About 50% of speech can be understood by two years
  • p, t, k, b, d, g, m, n, w, j and h consonants are used mostly at the beginning of words
• 2 - 3 years:
  • About 75% of speech is understood
  • Uses most sounds in the beginning, middle and end of words, 50% of the time
• 3-4 years:
  • About 90% of speech is understood by age four
  • Says most sounds correctly

For more information contact:

• Speech-language development - Cindy Stando, SLP 631-7503
• Hearing/Audiology - Anne Orsene, AuD 633-3344