Pointing to Pictures
Updated July 16, 2013.
A photo of a toddler reading a book with his mother and pointing to pictures, a milestone that many toddlers reach when they are about 18 to 24 months old.
Although you can begin to read to your infant or toddler at any age, it becomes especially fun once they begin pointing to pictures in the books.
Most toddlers can point to pictures once they are about 18 to 24 months old, which is soon followed by actually naming the pictures she is pointing to.
Sources:
Functional developmental evaluation. Prerequisite to habilitation. Capute AJ - Pediatr Clin North Am - 01-FEB-1973; 20(1): 3-26
Linguistic and auditory milestones during the first two years of life: a language inventory for the practitioner. Capute AJ - Clin Pediatr (Phila) - 01-NOV-1978; 17(11): 847-53
Clinical linguistic and auditory milestone scale: prediction of cognition in infancy. Capute AJ - Dev Med Child Neurol - 01-DEC-1986; 28(6): 762-71
The Denver Developmental Assessment (Denver II)
A photo of a toddler reading a book with his mother and pointing to pictures, a milestone that many toddlers reach when they are about 18 to 24 months old.
Although you can begin to read to your infant or toddler at any age, it becomes especially fun once they begin pointing to pictures in the books.
Most toddlers can point to pictures once they are about 18 to 24 months old, which is soon followed by actually naming the pictures she is pointing to.
Sources:
Functional developmental evaluation. Prerequisite to habilitation. Capute AJ - Pediatr Clin North Am - 01-FEB-1973; 20(1): 3-26
Linguistic and auditory milestones during the first two years of life: a language inventory for the practitioner. Capute AJ - Clin Pediatr (Phila) - 01-NOV-1978; 17(11): 847-53
Clinical linguistic and auditory milestone scale: prediction of cognition in infancy. Capute AJ - Dev Med Child Neurol - 01-DEC-1986; 28(6): 762-71
The Denver Developmental Assessment (Denver II)
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