Sentence question (SLP?)

apollonia10 · May 2014

For the SLPs on the board, but for anyone who knows - what counts as a sentence at this age? Is it just two words strung together? For example, DS says "Hi Dada" and "Hi Mama," but he also says "Door...keys...open" and "Garage...car...go." There are pauses between the words but he is connecting the idea of going to the garage, getting in the car, and going. He'll also say longer ones like "Outside...shoes...tree...bubbles...pop." (We go outside, put on shoes, sit under the tree, blow and pop bubbles.)

Would you consider that a sentence, or does it need to have syntax?

grimesk12 · May 2014

I'll have to look up the ages but normally an utterance/sentence is a subject and verb that can stand alone and has meaning. For example "door open". I don't work with little ones but in school when we took language samples on young kids we calculated mean length of utterances or MLU. There are MLU norms based on age. There's also Brown's development. The site explains it well. https://www.speech-language-therapy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33:brown&catid=2:uncategorised&Itemid=117

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