Child Language Development: What to Expect at 18-24 months Your baby has hit 18 months! All of a sudden, she's grown from a sweet little baby into an independent, active toddler who likes to push her limits. She makes you laugh, she makes you cry, and she surely makes you wonder w ...
First Words: Child Language Development at 12-18 Months Happy First Birthday to your little one! You've both survived the first year (whew!) and now that you look back, you can't imagine how time went so quickly. There's much to look forward to over the next year, not ...
Dance Puppet Dance: Baby Communication Development at 6-12 months Welcome to the second half of your baby's first year. These months mark the beginning of my favorite part of language development, when children begin to realize that they can actually communicate with the ...
http://www.talkingkids.org/2011/03/what-to-expect-0-6-months-old.html Baby Communication Development: 0-6 Months Old So you've got a new baby, and you want to know what to expect, eh? The good news is that it's my job to tell you just that. The bad news, however, is that y ...
Joint Attention: How do we teach what is hardest to learn? An airplane flies overhead. Your toddler looks up into the sky with large eyes, looks quickly to you, then looks back toward the sky. It takes no words, no description, occasionally a gasp or squeal will sn ...
Speech Development for Preschool Children 48 – 60 Months In child speech development, most five year olds can: Have sentence length of 4-5 words Use past tense correctly Have a vocabulary of nearly 1,500 words Point to colors red, blue, yellow and green Identify tria ...
Speech Development for Toddlers 36 – 48 Months In child speech development, most four year olds can: Can tell a story Have a sentence length of 4-5 words Have a vocabulary of nearly 1,000 words Can name at least one color Understand “yesterday,” “summer”, “lunch ...
Speech Development for Toddlers 24 – 36 Months In speech development, most two-and-a-half-year olds can: Use 50+ words Answer questions Refer to self as “I” or “me” Communicate mostly with speech and shows frustration when misunderstood In speech development, m ...
Speech Development for Toddlers 12 – 24 Months New here? Welcome! Be an informed parent -- sign up for our RSS feed . Thanks for visiting! In speech development, typical 18-month-olds can: Use 10-15 words spontaneously Attempt to sing Say “No” meaningfully Gestu ...
Speech Development for Babies 8 – 12 Months New here? Welcome! Be an informed parent -- sign up for our RSS feed . Thanks for visiting! Most One Year Olds can: Recognize name Say “mama” and “dada” (nonspecifically) and 2-3 words besides “mama” and “dada” Im ...