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Children begin to make coo sounds and start babbling as first means of communication
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Babbling begins to turn into sounds and patterns of child's spoken language in the household
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Child begins taking turns in simple games. They begin to understand the process of sharing
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By the first year children are beginning to say their simple first words like mama, dada, cat, dog
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Children begin to use two word sentences and their vocabulary expands to a approximately 200 words
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Children begin to add more words to their sentences and begin asking questions like who, what, where, and why
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Children are able to describe objects in full sentences and can explain how to solve simple problems
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Children begin to use more complex sentences and can follow multiple commands in a row
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Children can follow instructions that have more than one step. Ex: Go upstairs, grab your shoes, come downstairs and put them on, then put on your jacket.
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7-8 year olds can use grammar in the correct way when writing sentences. They can listen for a longer amount of time
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Children around 10 begin to understand words with multiple uses and meanings
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11-12 year olds begin to understand the uses of similes, metaphors, onomatopoeias, etc. in stories