Communication Milestones-2 years
At 2 years, children can usually...
Understand
- Follow simple two part instructions (e.g: ‘give me the ball and the car’)
- Respond to simple wh-questions; such as ‘what’ and ‘where’
- Point to several body parts and pictures in books when named
- Understand when an object is ‘in’ and ‘on’ something
Speak
- Say more than 50 single words
- Put 2 words togehter (e.g: ‘bye mummy’, ‘no teddy’)
- Use their tone of voice to ask a question (e.g: dog go?)
- Say ‘no’ when they do not want something
- Use most vowel sounds and a variety of consonants (m, n, p, b, k, g, h, w, t, d)
- Start to use ‘mine’ and ‘my’
(SPA, 2020)