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Fleeting Attention – not under child’s control, new stimuli takes whole attention. | Stops and looks when hears own name. (by 12 months 􀀡) | Gradually develops speech sounds (babbling) to communicate with adults; says sounds like ‘baba, nono, gogo’. (by 11 months 􀀡) | Gazes at faces and copies facial movements, eg. sticking out tongue.\u003Cbr>Concentrates intently on faces and enjoys interaction.\u003Cbr>Uses voice, gesture, eye contact and facial expression to make contact with people and keep their attention. (by 12 months 􀀡) |\n| 8-20 months | Concentrates intently on an object or activity of own choosing for short periods.\u003Cbr>Pays attention to dominant stimulus – easily distracted by noises or other people talking. Moves whole bodies to sounds they enjoy, such as music or a regular beat.\u003Cbr>Has a strong exploratory impulse. | Responds to the different things said when in a familiar context with a special person (e.g. ‘Where’s Mummy?’,‘Where’s your nose?’) . Understanding of single words in context is developing, e.g. ‘cup’,‘milk’, ‘daddy’ | Uses single words. (by 16 months 􀀡)\u003Cbr>Frequently imitates words and sounds.\u003Cbr>Enjoys babbling and increasingly experiments with using sounds and words to communicate fora range of purposes (e.g. teddy, more, no, byebye) | Likes being with familiar adult and watching them. Developing the ability to follow an adult’s body language, including pointing and gesture.\u003Cbr>Learns that their voice and actions have effects on others.\u003Cbr>Uses pointing with eye gaze to make requests, and to share an interest. (by 18 months 􀀡) |\n| 16-26\u003Cbr>months | Listens to and enjoys rhythmic patterns in rhymes and stories.\u003Cbr>Enjoys rhymes and demonstrates listening by trying to join in with actions or vocalisations. Rigid attention – may appear not to hear. | Selects familiar objects by name and will go and find objects when asked, or identify objects from a group. | Beginning to put two words together (e.g. ‘want ball’, ‘more juice’) (by 24 months 􀀡)\u003Cbr>Uses different types of everyday words (nouns, verbs and adjectives, e.g. banana , go, sleep, hot) Beginning to ask simple questions. | Gradually able to engage in‘pretend’ play with toys (supports child to imagine another’s point of view) .\u003Cbr>Looks to others for responses which confirm, contribute to, or challenge their understanding. |\n| 22-36\u003Cbr>months | Single channelled attention. Can shift to a different task if attention fully obtained – using child’s name helps focus. (by 36 months 􀀡) Listens with interest to the noises adults make when they read stories.\u003Cbr>Recognises and responds to many familiar sounds e.g. turning to a knock on the door, looking at or going to the door. | Identifies action words by pointing to the right picture, e.g. , \"Who's jumping?\" (by 30 months 􀀡) Understands 'who', 'what', 'where'in simple questions (e.g. Who’s that/can? What’s that? Where is.?) . Developing understanding of simple concepts (e.g. big/little) | Learns new words very rapidly and is able to use them in communicating.\u003Cbr>Uses action, sometimes with limited talk, that is largely concerned with the ‘here and now’(e.g. reaches toward toy, saying‘I have it) .\u003Cbr>Uses a variety of questions (e.g. what, where, who) .\u003Cbr>Uses simple sentences (e.g.’Mummy gonna work.’)\u003Cbr>Beginning to use word endings (e.g. going, cats) | Uses language as a powerful means of widening contacts, sharing feelings, experiences and thoughts.\u003Cbr>Holds a conversation, jumping from topic to topic. 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