Infant Development Milestones

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What can babies aged 18-24 months typically do?

  • Listen when spoken to
  • Use 4 to 6 intelligible words
  • Recognize names
  • Enjoy challenging words like 'helicopter' (correct)

At what age do children typically start using four to six intelligible words?

  • 6-9 months
  • 18-24 months
  • 12-15 months (correct)
  • 9-12 months

What milestone do babies aged 6-9 months typically reach?

  • Recognize names
  • Engage in much vocal play
  • Babble random combinations of consonants and vowels (correct)
  • Use complete words

At what age do toddlers usually put two short words together to form sentences?

<p>15-18 months (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a common ability of babies between 9-12 months of age?

<p>Use 'mama' and 'dada' for any person (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What milestone do children typically reach between two and three years of age?

<p>Ability to repeat rhymes, songs, and stories (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

At what age do preschoolers usually start using verbs predominantly in their vocabularies?

<p>3 years old (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a common language skill observed in children between four and five years of age?

<p>Ability to understand most of what they hear (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a characteristic of children's speech by the age of three?

<p>Most speech can be understood (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a typical ability of three to five-year-olds in terms of sentence construction?

<p>Use three to five-word sentences (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT a common characteristic of preschoolers' language abilities?

<p>Inability to understand most of what they hear (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the preferred pitch characteristic of voices that infants tend to prefer?

<p>Higher pitch (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following abilities do most infants acquire between birth and three months of age?

<p>Recognize their mother's voice, smile when spoken to, and turn toward familiar voices and sounds (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is not one of the abilities that most infants can do between three and six months of age?

<p>Cry differently out of boredom (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a key developmental milestone for receptive language development that occurs between six and 12 months of age?

<p>Infants enter a crucial age for receptive language development (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is not one of the abilities that most infants develop between three and six months of age?

<p>Produce their first words (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one common circumstance that can result in language delay in children under age three?

<p>Having siblings who are very close in age or older interpret for the child (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which physical disorder can contribute to language delay in children?

<p>Cerebral palsy (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a common cause of late talking in children?

<p>Maturation delay of speech centers in the brain (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does bilingualism typically affect a child's comprehension of languages?

<p>It enhances comprehension beyond that of monolingual children (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What developmental disorder can lead to abnormal language use or a lack of language development in children?

<p>Autism (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the context of language delays, what does Klinefelter syndrome involve?

<p>An extra X chromosome in males (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the approximate size of the vocabulary of a child in the age range described?

<p>1,500 to 2,500 words (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a characteristic of school-age children's language development?

<p>They can follow three consecutive commands and talk constantly, asking innumerable questions while using descriptive words and compound/complex sentences. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a common developmental delay in children?

<p>Language delay (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

At what age do most children begin reading?

<p>7 years old (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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