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Sensorimotor...Cognitive Development
Learn by using their senses and ability to move. -
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Birth to Seven Years
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Cooing...Language Development
Babies begin to make vowel-like sounds. -
Babbling...Language Development
Infants add consonant sounds to the vowels to make a babbling sound. -
Telegraphic Speech...Languauge Development
Toddlers begin to string words together to form short, simple sentences using nouns, verbs, and adjectives. -
Whole Sentences...Languauge Development
They start to increase their vocabulary, use grammatical terms, and by the age of seven some will talk almost as fluent as an adult. -
Preoperational...Cognitive Development
They can mentally represent and refer to objejts and events with words or pictures and they can pretend.