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- Quiets/smiles when spoken to
- Cries vary for different needs
- Responds to changes in tone of voice
- Vocalizes sounds of pleasure and discontentment, Babbling sounds are more speech-like
- Enjoys games like peek-a-boo and recognizes common item words (e.g. cup, shoe)
- Babbling has long/short groups of sounds (e.g. tatata bibibib) and imitates speech sounds and intonation - At 12 months, child may have 1-2 words (e.g. mama, dada, bye-bye). Words may be unclear
- Points to a few body parts
- Follows simple commands (roll the ball)
- Uses more words each month
- Use sentence like imitation using adult-like prosody
- Eventually start putting 2 words together (no juice, more mommy)
- Understand difference between the meaning of come contrasting words (stop-go, big—little)
- Uses 2-3 word sentences
- Often directs attention to objects or asks for them by naming them
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