Age 3| Speech Development & flashcards

As children continue to grow at age 3, you can notice different abilities. Children feel more confident to perform various activities like running, jumping, walking up stairs, and riding bicycles. Although the rate of development may vary child to child. Parents should be extra careful as kids encounter accidents like slipping from stairs, touching hot tea or coffee, smashing fingers in doors etc.

Some common milestones at age 3:

1. Running Confidently
2. Walking up and down on stairs
3. Rides a bicycle
4. Washes and dries hands
5. Easily draws straight lines and copies a circle
6. Eating food with spoon
7. Partially able to dresses and undresses
8. Has all baby teeth
9. Vision is nearing 20/20
10. May start using potty chair or toilet and inform about pee pee and poo poo
11. Defined sleeping pattern
12. Follow instruction like “switch on the light” or “close the door”

Children start speaking in sentences of 3-4 words. They are clear and better with familiar words. They follow moderate instructions. They are comfortable with around 200 or more words. They refer themself with pronouns like I, my, me or myself. They can say most of the words in age 2 flashcards.

There are some milestones which help to identify the normal speech development in the kids. These milestones can help parents if they need to spend extra time with kids on speech development.

Speech development Milestone at age 3:

1. Start saying three or four words sentences or phrases like "let's go", "I want cookie", "my car"
2. Children say around 400 or more words
3. Follow moderate instructions like "bring toys", "brush your teeth"
4. State or recognise their and family members name
5. Children can be understood by family or close friends
6. Children can say most of the age 2 words refer **here
7. Repeat words as they hear from others or TV/ Google mini/ Alexa

Speech development process depends on many factors like:

1. Family size
2. Atmosphere at home
3. Parents engagement with kids
4. Social circle
5. Parents habits

We have a special collection of digital flashcards for children aged 3. It covers the most used words at this age. It's aligned with the rhymes and reading books for this age group. We have designed advanced versions of flashcards for age 3. It covers more words in pictorial flashcards compared to age 2 like fruit flashcards, animal flashcards, transportation flashcards, vegetable flashcards, flower flashcard, food flashcards.

You may refer to age 2 flashcards and age 1 flashcards. It consists of special video and pictorial flashcards which kids enjoy. It covers words from my first words list and age 2 word list. It helps kids to pick up initial words to start communication.

Parents can use the video flashcards to motivate children to speak the words. Regular practice helps children to recognize the pictures in the digital flashcard. Please refer to how to use digital flashcard FAQs for more information.