Language Development Milestones

The California Department of Education's Parent Profile is designed to help you track your child’s language growth. You and your Early Start or preschool teacher should discuss whether your child is meeting each of these milestones and is making age-appropriate language growth. Visit the website to learn the monthly and yearly milestones and download an interactive roadmap document for your child. Remember: the language milestones are not meant to replace formal assessment of your child’s development of language and literacy. Your observations of your child’s skills may be different than the results of formal assessments presented at your child’s IFSP or IEP, but your observations are very important.