9-12 Months
RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE
- Understand about 10 words
- Respond to their name
- Recognises sounds and looks for where they are coming from
- Recognise greetings and gestures, for example, ‘hi’ and ‘bye’
- Understands commonly used sayings by parents
- Recognises a few familiar people and objects
- Anticipation during peek-a-boo
- Makes eye contact
EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE
- Start to use sounds, gestures and say a few words
- Responds to name being called by smiling
- Continued babbling
- Copy different sounds and actions
- Engages in simple turn-taking games
- Makes some vowel sounds (oo-ee), consonant sounds (p, m, d) and combines sounds to produce a syllable (ma, pa).
