Children Can Learn Words as Early as 10 Months

Scientists at Temple University have shown experimentally for the first time that children as young as ten months can associate a word with an object, even though it has to be an object in which they have previously shown an interest. Older children can associate words with both objects that interest them and those that don’t. The researchers suggest that “Perhaps this is why children learn words faster when parents look at and name objects the infants already find interesting.”