Receptive language (understanding of language)
-Understands simple requests "give me", "open your mouth", etc.
-Responds to simple questions "Where's your shoe?"
-Becomes interested in sounds outside the immediate environment
-Responds to music with body movements to the rhythm
Expressive (what the child expresses to others)
-Plays games of "pat-a-cake" and "peek-a-boo"
-Uses jargon (strings of words and sounds with changes in tone and pitch)
-Uses first true words with meaning
-Likes to imitate others
-Imitates cough, tongue clicks
-Uses sounds for animals
-Babbles with others, mirror, and toys
-Understands simple requests "give me", "open your mouth", etc.
-Responds to simple questions "Where's your shoe?"
-Becomes interested in sounds outside the immediate environment
-Responds to music with body movements to the rhythm
Expressive (what the child expresses to others)
-Plays games of "pat-a-cake" and "peek-a-boo"
-Uses jargon (strings of words and sounds with changes in tone and pitch)
-Uses first true words with meaning
-Likes to imitate others
-Imitates cough, tongue clicks
-Uses sounds for animals
-Babbles with others, mirror, and toys
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