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).