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These developmental milestones have been provided to show some of the skills that mark the progress of youngchildren as they learn to communicate. You may use these milestones to help monitor your child's development.For more information visit Early Child Development | ontario.caBy 12 months most children can:follow simple one-step directions (for example, \look across the room to something you point touse three or more wordsuse gestures to communicate (for example, waves \get your attention using sounds, gestures and pointing while looking at your eyesbring you toys to show you\ for attention and praisecombine lots of sounds as though talking (for example, abada baduh abee)show interest in simple picture booksCrawl First, Walk SecondOnce your child can sit up and crawl, they are ready to learn to stand. Crawling is thought to have many benefitsfor children. It helps develop strength, balance, spinal alignment, visual-spatial skills, and socio-emotionaldevelopment. Your child will really enjoy it when you practice crawling with them. You can also encourage themto crawl after a toy and bring it back to you. When they are ready, they will pull themselves to stand, walk whileholding on to furniture and then stand alone.Your child has also found their pointer finger and they like to use it. When they point to objects, you canencourage their efforts by saying %u201cShow me the pig%u201d. They need you to teach them how to be gentle with theirhands. Put your hand over theirs and show how to be gentle with a book, petting an animal or touching anotherchild. Children learn by doing and need you to show how to do things.Games and toys are the tools that children use to learn. Here are some thingsthey may like to play with:Pop-up toys: A toy piano or any toys that have buttons to press or turn. Teach them how to use their fingersto press down rather than their whole hand.Music: Dance with them around the room. Sing to them - Pop Goes the Weasel, Pat-a-Cake, Old MacDonald,etc.Balls: Your child will like when you roll things to them.Containers: and smaller safe toys so they can practice filling and dumping.Boxes: big ones to crawl into, small ones for their toys.Create Your Own Book - Items Needed:photographs or magazine pictures of people, animals, or objects.a small photo albumPlace one picture on each page of the photo album. Talk about each picture as you look at the booktogether. Say %u201cWho is this?%u201d or %u201cWhat animal is this?%u201d and %u201cWhat sound does the animal make?%u201d