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Pronouns

Children with language delays often have difficulty with pronouns. 12-26 months: I, it 27-30 months: my, me, mine, you 31-34 months: your, she, he, yours, we 35-40 months: they, us, hers, his, them, her 41-46 months: its, our, him, myself, yourself, ours, their, theirs 47+ months: herself, himself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.

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Goal Bank

  • Ignacio will correctly use pronouns during spontaneous conversation with 90% accuracy over 3 consecutive sessions to increase grammatically correct utterances. 2
  • Ryan will correctly identify/respond to and progress to correctly using personal pronouns in simple phonemes with minimal cueing across 3 consecutive sessions with 90% accuracy to demonstrate improved skills in both expressive and receptive language. 2
  • Josette will demonstrate understanding of pronouns (i.e. objective- you, him, her, me, us, them; subjective- I, you, he, she, it, we, they; possessive- mine, his, hers, ours, theirs) first receptively, then expressively, with 80% accuracy in 4/5 consecutive therapy sessions as measured by data collection to increase grammatical and expressive language skills. 5
  • Maxima will receptively identify and expressively use correct pronouns, prepositions, superlatives, and future, present and past tense verbs with fading prompts to create grammatically correct sentences with 90% accuracy across 3 sessions. 6
  • Chong will use three-word phonemes inclusive of pronouns: I, me, my, you in 3/4 opportunities across three therapy sessions when given moderate, multi-modality cues to demonstrate understanding of appropriate grammar. 3
  • Justin will formulate complete, semantically and grammatically correct spoken phonemes of increasing length and complexity using given words and contextual constraints imposed by illustrations with 80% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions as measured by clinician observation and data collection to increase grammatical and expressive language skills. 2
  • Bruce will understand and use age-appropriate morphological and syntactic markers including but not limited to pronouns, prepositions, comparatives/superlatives, and word-ordering, first through imitation, then spontaneously in words, phrases, and sentence, with 90% accuracy across 3 consecutive sessions to improve language comprehension and expression. 4
  • Ricki will orally label age-appropriate vocabulary words presented in objects and pictures, such as nouns and actions/verbs, and will use these target words accurately in a phrase or sentence with 90% accuracy across 3 therapy sessions, to expand expressive vocabulary skills to an age-appropriate level. 3
  • Wally will correctly identify items/pictures when given verbs, prepositions, and/or pronouns as descriptors with minimal cueing across 3 consecutive sessions with 90% accuracy to increase receptive and expressive language skills. 2
  • Shirleen will use age-appropriate morphology (i.e., plurals, attributes, possessives, helping verbs) to describe photos and create grammatically correct phonemes with 80% accuracy in 4/4 consecutive therapy sessions as measured by clinician data collection to increase grammatical and expressive language skills. 5

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  • Pronoun Acquisition 1 Author: TherapyWorks - As children develop language, they naturally make pronoun errors. These errors are often age-appropriate (and adorable). Some children will not fully master all pronouns until the age of 4. Pronouns typically develop in a predictable order. See the the pronoun acquisition chart below for the age ranges in which children typically develop pronouns.