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A two-year-old child
- Communicates using a combination of gestures, looking,
sounds and words
• Starts to take turns in conversations
- Able to attend to activity of own
choosing
- Understands that events are made up of a series of
steps in sequence e.g. wash hands, sit at table, eat,
get
down
- Demonstrates more than one action in pretend play e.g.
feeds doll then puts doll to bed
- Understands that words
can stand for pictures and toys of real objects
- Understands
some long and complicated sentences
- Able to carry out
instructions containing two key words, without relying
on the speaker’s gestures, for example,
to figure out the meaning e.g. 'Put teddy on the table'
- Starts
to combine two or three words into short phrases e.g.
'Mummy here', 'Teddy jump here'
- Uses the same word or
phrase for different reasons e.g. 'Daddy drink' might
mean, 'That’s daddy’s drink',
'Daddy, I want your drink' or 'Daddy’s drinking'.
- Starts
to ask questions
- Starts to say 'No' and 'Not'
- Starts to talk about past
events and possibly things that might happen in the
future.
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