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Babies turn toward sounds

Facial expressions matter: they’ll relax or brighten when you smile

Different cries begin to mean different needs

They may quiet down just from being held

Social smiles appear (huge moment 🥹)

Cooing and little vowel sounds

They respond to playful voices and gentle back-and-forth interaction

Laughing, squealing

Reaching toward people or objects

Strong reactions to familiar vs. unfamiliar faces

They “talk back” when you talk to them

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Babies communicate by making sounds out (mumbling/whining), crying, yawning when tired. Aiming their arms up to the educators if wanting to get picked up to take a walk. Facial expressions, saying yes and no, Making faces when not liking any kind of flavoured apple sauce.

Megan

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Toddlers make sounds before real words
They babble, squeal, hum, growl, shout—sometimes with real emotion behind it. Even when it’s not words yet, the tone means something (excited vs. frustrated vs. tired).

Gestures and body language
Pointing is huge. So are reaching, pulling you toward something, pushing things away, waving, clapping, shaking their head, or giving you an object to say “this—help.” Facial expressions do a lot of the talking too.

Single words (that mean whole sentences)
A toddler might say “milk” and mean:

I want milk

I spilled my milk

Look, milk!
Context does the heavy lifting her

Crying and meltdowns
Not just distress—this is communication when they don’t have better tools yet. Hunger, overstimulation, pain, boredom, frustration, or “I can’t make you understand me” all come out this way.

Imitation
They copy words, sounds, gestures, and routines. Repeating what they hear is how they practice and learn what gets a response.

Play-based communication
They “talk” through play—bringing you a toy, acting something out, or using pretend play to show ideas and feelings.

Early combinations
As language grows, you’ll hear two-word phrases like “more juice,” “mommy go,” or “no bed,” which are big developmental leaps.

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Toddlers can communicate by saying one word, or close to saying a word. They can communicate by pointing at things they want or need, crying if hurt, mumbling words hinting for the toys they want. Even sit on your lap, wanting comfort.

Megan

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Toddlers actually communicate in both ways nonverbal and verbal some toddlers who don’t know how to talk will mumble and most of them will show gestures like pointing to an item, waving, nodding/shaking head, reaching, tugging on clothes or bringing objects to show you. They will also echo words or phrases they hear and at this age some of them will know how to ask “who, what, where, why’ questions.

Ada

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Toddlers ages(1-3) communicate through a mix of gestures, vocal sounds, facial expressions, and increasing verbal skills. Early on, they rely on pointing, crying,or pulling adults to express needs, gradually moving toward single words, and by age 2, combining words into short, simple phrases to express emotions, wants, and needs.

Michelle

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Babies communicate using a mixture of cries, body movements, facial expressions, and vocal sound to signal their needs—such as hunger, discomfort, or a desire for connection. These early, often subtle, cues evolve into cooing, babbling, and hand/body gestures like reaching or pointing

-Jocelyn

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babies communicate from birth primarily through crying to signal needs like hunger, discomfort, or pain. As they use non-verbal cues (smiles, facial expressions, pointing. And reaching out.

Michelle

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The babies communicate by crying, whining, put there arms out if they want you, making facial face when they don’t like what there eating, making facials like smiling, laughing when they like what were doing, rub there eyes when there tired,

Camillia

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Toddlers communicate by saying little words at a time, pointing at what they want or need, crying when hurt and showing you, laughing and smiling when they are enjoying what your doing or what they are doing.

Camillia

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The way babies communicate is by using their hands, or crying. They cry when they are hungry, tired or need a pamper change.

Colleen

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The way toddlers communicate is by short easy words to say. Or the come tap you and point and what they want.

Colleen

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Babies communicate by using their hands (pointing or grabbing items) or crying

Usually when babies are crying they’re telling us they are tired, hungry, need a diaper change or when they’re sad

Shalyne

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Some toddlers are non verbal while others are verbal.

The non verbal children will point to things they’d want or need.

The verbal toddlers are learning new words everyday, they communicate with words, emotions and facial expression.

Shalyne