This baby does not yet have language. But you can tell that he is on his way there. Note the length of the social interaction with the mother, the eye contact, the gesturing, the protodeclarative pointing (the fancy name for that pointing that children typically do early on in order to share an event with another person). What a marvel. Can't you just watch over and over again?
Very few kids that I have seen (and when I see them it is because they have or have been diagnosed with a Pervasive Developmental Disorder) presented this group of behaviors when I met them, well after they should have been there, like at 4 years of age for example. And it has corresponded well with, after intensive intervention, pretty amazing development of language. Not without its challenges with discrimination and generalization. But good, naturally sounding language.
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