How to train
1 Year Old Baby To Talk
Baby and Toddler Milestones, Dr. Lisa Shulman
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today we're going to go through
communication milestones during the
first two years this is intended as a
public service video its goal is to
provide parents with the information
that they need in order to monitor
nurture and really encourage their young
child's communicative potential each of
the age groups we look at we're going to
look at three different areas to tell us
how communication skills are development
we're going to look at social engagement
attention to language and communicative
effort so starting with that seven to
eight month old a baby of that age is a
highly social creature some of the signs
of social engagement are a baby lighting
up really engaging when spoken to making
strong eye contact sharing a smile and a
vocalization referencing back refers to
looking back at somebody to help make
sense of a situation a baby playing with
a toy and looking to see somebody else's
reaction to what they had before them
and then there's imitating beginning to
do what they see in others around them
doing in terms of attention to language
maybe it's been paying close attention
to everything that the adults in the
world have been doing and what are those
adults doing they're doing a lot of
talking one of the first things baby is
paying attention to and making sense of
his often their name and want a baby
this age here's their name they should
look up in addition if the baby has been
introduced to and expected to follow
commands with a gesture come come
tomorrow give it to Daddy this is an age
where they are able to follow those
early first commands with a gesture in
terms of their own ability their ability
to communicate what it is that they want
and need even before that first word
appears a baby this age is highly
communicative the signs of communicative
intent are making strong eye contact
vocalizing
giving a general gesture in the
direction of what the child wants now
we're going to look at 12 to 15 month
olds what do we expect in terms of
social engagement a book they engage in
more reciprocal exchanges more longer
so-called conversations back and forth
they initiate more the all-important
point
emerges that's a way to direct
somebody's attention elsewhere they also
in a position to understand another's
point they can follow their mother's
point to another activity as well in
terms of attention to language in this
age group we're seeing babies able to
understand a lot more language and
follow commands with out that gesture to
prompt them good job
now when you say byebye baby we'll just
pick up their hand and start waving
bye-bye carrying out the gestures to
songs they know down pointing to body
parts yeah in terms of the baby's own
ability to communicate back it's a very
very clear communication when a child
points it's something that they want and
now parents have been waiting a long
time for this that's on often those
first words also appear now we're going
to look at 18 month olds in terms of
their social engagement these are kids
who now are not only engaged and
imitated and initiating they're pointing
and directing people's attention
elsewhere and they're using that a lot
to show showing is a really social skill
when you demonstrate to somebody oh look
over there at that train that's going by
or the dog and look back at a parent
you're initiating a real social extreme
in the area of attention to language the
toddler can follow how many and more
complex commands
the toddler has the attention span at
this point to engage with a picture book
and go back and forth reciprocally with
the adult pointing out the things that
are labeled or things of interest in
terms of their ability to communicate we
have words to indicate once you need
bubbles those same words will now also
start to emerge in terms of pretend play
because your couch they'll try to
narrate maybe start to make the sounds
of the baby sucking or the car moving
we're getting vocalization coordinated
with potentially the 24 month old is a
social sophisticate she is a ham she
wants your attention and she knows how
to get it where is the city at the park
this child social engagement is
demonstrated in that forum she's wanting
to show you everything engage you
constantly all the time in terms of
attention to language they understand
everything around yeah I think that way
that looks like the top they understand
complex directed oh should wipe it out
do you need a cloth to wipe it they
understand other people's conversation
there
so no better and then in terms of their
own communicative ability they should
have a vocabulary that's 200 words and
growing demonstrate many two word
combinations or longer it has nails in
addition they're using that language for
a wider range of purposes now it's not
only to make requests it's to direct the
activities of others it's to comment it
so they don't want to do something you
want to feed them now and they're
bringing that language to their play as
well play pretend play really takes off
okay they like pasta look how far our
toddler has come in two years we've
clearly seen that those first words
don't emerge out of the blue there are
many things we can monitor along the way
to feel assured that things are going in
the right direction
I want to emphasize that there's a range
of normal development children do things
at their own pace if a child is
demonstrating some delays we need to ask
ourselves certain questions are we
dealing with a hearing impairment is
this a concern regarding cognitive
development is this a language
impairment is this a sign for autism in
this child among other things
and we know from the research on early
intervention that the earlier we
intervene with each of these
difficulties the better the outcome so
we're urging you as parents to bring any
concerns you have to your pediatrician
you know your child best and your your
child's advocate
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