Foundations & Professional Practice

Question 1

By what age do newborns turn toward or react to familiar voices?

Answer 1

3 months

Question 2

Around what age recognize and respond to “No” and attend to non-speech sounds?

Answer 2

4 - 6 months

Question 3

By what age do babies observably listen to others who speak to them?

Answer 3

7 months

Question 4

By what age do babies typically turn and look at faces when others call their name or speak to them?

Answer 4

7 months

Question 5

Between what ages do babies start playing simple interactive games (peekaboo), begin recognizing nouns, and follow simple directions and questions?

Answer 5

Between 7 and 12 months

Question 6

From what age do children begin pointing to their body parts, naming objects in pictures, follow simple commands, understand simple questions, and want simple songs & games repeated?

Answer 6

From 1 to 2 years of age

Question 7

By what age do toddlers understand two stage directions (Take off your clothes and put them in the laundry hamper), understand the meaning of opposites, and recognize and attend to nonspeech sounds (doorbell)?

Answer 7

Two

Question 8

By what age do children typically understand simple questions beginning with: who, what, and where, hear and recognize when others call them from another room, and hearing problems become more apparent?

Answer 8

Three to Four

Question 9

At what age do children enjoy hearing simple stories and can answer related questions, and hear and understand almost all of the speech they are exposed to in their home and daycare or preschool environments?

Answer 9

Four to Five

Question 10

Milestones: at what age do children communicate pain/discomfort and pleasure to others?

Answer 10

Newborn

Question 11

Milestones: at what age do children smile when seeing parents, differentiated crying sounds for different needs, cooing and gooing for pleasure sounds?

Answer 11

by three months

Question 12

Milestones: at what age do children gurgle and engage in vocal play?

Answer 12

four to six months

Question 13

Milestones: at what age do children develop babbling?

Answer 13

four to six months

Question 14

Milestones: at what age can children communicate to their parents that they want something or want the parents to do something, and develop the ability to produce very urgent vocal sounds to induce adults to take action on their behalf?

Answer 14

six months

Question 15

Milestones: Describe the qualities of babbling at 6 months vs later (7 - 12 months)

Answer 15

6 months: sometimes including intonations that mimic conversational speech, and including multiple speech sounds, particularly the bilabial consonants /b/, /p/, /m/, and /w/ as well as vowels

7 - 12 months: babbling changes in sound due to its including both long and short vowels and larger numbers of consonants.

Question 16

Milestones: at what age do children begin to use other sounds than crying to get and keep parents’ attention?

Answer 16

7 - 12 months

Question 17

Milestones: at what age do children begin uttering their first words (somewhat unclearly),

Answer 17

By the time they are one year old

Question 18

Milestones: at what age do children….?
-Acquire more new words with each month
-Develop more clear Pronunciation
-Articulate more initial consonants of words
-Begin combining two words to form simple sentences and questions, e.g., “More cookie,” “Kitty go,” “Where ball?”, or “What that?”

Answer 18

From one to two years old

Question 19

Milestones: at what age do children….?
-typically demonstrate dramatic vocabulary development
-Apparently know words to identify/describe nearly everything
Routinely make one-, two-, and three-word utterances, which family members usually understand
-May draw attention to/ask for things by:
naming them (e.g., “box”),
identifying characteristics (“heavy!”);
commenting (“wow!”);
describing actions (“penguin out!” when removing a stuffed animal from a toy car) or
giving directions (“watch this!”).

Answer 19

Toddlers at the ages of two to three years