Understanding Your Baby’s Language Development

The development of language is one of the most impressive achievements of the first two years, and it doesnt come easily. In the second year my grandson Andrew began to say his first words. Slowly he discovered that words are labels; he struggled to find the right words after recognizing that he made word mistakes; he gradually learned to associate a picture with a word (he saw a company logo on a truck and exclaimed cheese); he discovered the past tense; he realized he could ask for help; he learned to refer to himself as me. He even realized—and accepted—that he could not always be understood. All of this occurred over the course of a year or so. But Andrews language development was not remarkable; it was very similar to the language growth of other children his age. Wha

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