Gifted 18 month old checklist6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Sometimes early words might sound like each other. ![]() Most children will say their first word between the ages of 10-14 months. Once they said it three times, congratulations! It is official! Your child has said their first word! They said it on their own without having to copy you. Later that day, the dog barks at the mail carrier and your child again says “dah.” And last, your child watches you pour kibble into a dish in the evening while your dog looks on and they comment, “dah.” In this instance, the child did not use “dah” for lots of other stuff during the day (a sippy cup was NOT called “dah”, nor was a diaper, shoes, blanket, etc.). So when the child (spontaneously) says “dah!” and is looking at your sweet puppy, dutifully licking baby food off of the ground, it is possible they are saying dog. They can say it on their own without having to directly copy someone AND The child says the same sound combination (or baby sign) to mean something specific AND Used together, you can say with relative certainty that something can be counted as a word: There is no official concrete rule that speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use to define a first word, but there are some common criteria. When your young child is sitting in their high chair, the remains of lunch in their hair and on the dog, and your child says says “dah!”, you may be wondering Did you just say something? First we need to answer the underlying question: what does it mean to “learn to talk?” Does that mean the child can say a single word? A few words put together? A single word but it has to sound really good? What about if it sounds like a real word, but you’re not sure that’s what the child means? When you have a young child, many or all of these questions may be running through your head.
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