For my PSY class we are learning about child development. There is many ways for toddlers to learn new words I think that. Joint attention is a great way for your toddler to learn new words. When your toddler picks up an object, looks, or touches and object – label it for them. For example if your toddler is staring at a pen pick it up and say “pen, this is a pen.” While labeling things for your child make sure you are looking at the object and not something else while labeling it – this confuses toddlers. Viewing television (at moderation) is also a good way to learn new words. Watching shows like Sesame Street improves child’s vocabulary. Sesame Street helps because it involves the child in language actives to learn words. At the beginning of ten months an infant will point, touch, or make noise. If a baby is pointing at a toy they want usually mothers (and other people) translate the baby’s words for them, this aids the way for learning new words. After the first birthday child learn how to begin conversations with adults. Toddler’s first conversations are about themselves, it then expands to include objects in the environment. After that the conversations have more theoretical ideas in them. Preschool children give more elaborate messages to the listeners who lack critical information.