speech and language growth

As your baby approaches 18 to 24 months an amazing verbal phenomenon happens – your baby starts exploding with new words – literally learning significantly many (more than 10) new words daily. We call this the language explosion and during this time little ones go from using 20 individual words to hundreds of words combined in simple sentences (like “Where doggy” or “Mommy sad”). Your older toddler can understand almost all instructions and begins to learn concepts like number and colour too. It is always important to remember that little ones are all unique and develop at their own pace, so your little one may experience the language explosion a little later than other babies. If you are concerned...