I CAN's progress checker - 3 years

Check the progress of your child's language development

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* 1. My child enjoys listening to people talking, but she/he can still be easily distracted

Yes

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* 2. My child remembers and understands familiar stories

Yes

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* 3. My child understands requests with about 4 main words, for example ‘sit teddy on the box’ or ‘kick the big red ball’

Yes

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* 4. My child can follow requests with 2 parts, for example ‘Get your socks and put them in the basket’

Yes

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* 5. My child is able to understand simple question words like ‘who’ and ‘where’

Yes

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* 6. My child can answer simple questions about objects e.g. "which one do we eat with?"

Yes

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* 7. My child understands the words ‘big’ and ‘little’

Yes

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* 8. My child understands simple quantities for example ‘a little bit’, ‘a lot’, ‘more’

Yes

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* 9. My child understands lots of words, at least 300

Yes

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* 10. My child links words together into sentences, up to 4 or 5 words, for example ‘he took my ball’

Yes

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* 11. My child uses action words for example run, spill, fall as well as nouns

Yes

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* 12. My child can add ‘s’ to words to show there is more than one of something. For example, ‘shoe’ becomes ‘shoes’ or ‘horsey’ becomes ‘horsies’

Yes

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* 13. My child uses the sounds p, b, m, w, k, g, t and d when she/he talks

Yes

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* 14. People that know my child can mostly understand him/her when she/he talks

Yes

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* 15. My child has started to talk to other children as well as to adults

Yes

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* 16. My child likes to have a conversation with me (but she/he does find it hard to stay on one topic and not jump from one to another)

Yes

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* 17. My child is interested in other children’s games, and wants to join in with them

Yes

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* 18. My child shows concern when another child is hurt or sad

Yes

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* 19. My child likes to get my attention and says things like ‘watch me’

Yes