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Infants coo, making vowel sounds.
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Infants observe with interest as the caregiver plays turn-taking games, such as pat-a-cake and peekaboo.
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Infants babble, adding consonants to their cooing sounds and repeating syllables. By 7 months, babbling starts to include many sounds of spoken languages. Infants begin to comprehend a few commonly heard words.
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Infants use preverbal gestures, such as showing and pointing, to influence others’ goals and behavior and to convey information.
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Babbling includes sound and intonation patterns of the child’s language community & Toddlers say their first recognizable word.
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Spoken vocabulary expands from about 50 to 200 to 250 words. Toddlers combine two words.
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Most children will use short sentences, like "me do it", daddy going car'
follow simple directions, like "Put the teddy bear to bed" https://www.childcareonline.co.nz/Speech-and-Language-Development-2-5-years.html) -
Most children will use sentences of 4 to 6 words also give directions like "fix this for me" (https://www.childcareonline.co.nz/Speech-and-Language-Development-2-5-years.html)
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Most children will use sentences that sound almost like an adult &
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Use long and complex sentences.
Understand comparative words e.g. ‘it was earlier than yesterday’.
Keep a conversation going by giving reasons and explaining choices.
Start conversations with adults and children they don’t know.
(http://www.talkingpoint.org.uk/ages-and-stages/7-11-years)
