A Child’s Journey provides a guideline for acquisition of skills based on developmental milestones for typically hearing and typically developing children from birth to 6 years. It covers eight developmental domains:
• Audition
• Receptive Language
• Expressive Language
• Speech Articulation
• Play
• Cognition
• Pragmatics
• Literacy
For the first 24 months, developmental milestones are specified in three-month age-range intervals. After the first 24 months, developmental skills are specified in six-month age-range intervals. Each skill can be marked as a goal, emerging, or mastered. It was designed to be used as a tool for professionals who work with children who have hearing loss to monitor children’s acquisition of skills necessary for listening and spoken language communication, provide information about current levels of functioning and progress, identify areas of concern, select appropriate goals for ongoing development, and aid in counseling families.
(Rev 1.0)
