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They point, or take your hand and lead you to it. The words they have are few, and new ones are slow to arrive.

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  • A hillside with the things a child has put there by naming them, and the words still available listed underneath.

    Build My World

    90s

    Home Base decoration by voice.

    Also putting words together · more words

  • A creature coming up over the hill towards the thing it asked for, with the words it is waiting for above.

    Creature Call

    75s

    A creature hides and is frightened.

    Also willing to try · putting words together · more words

  • Three things to ask for in one breath -- how many, what colour and what -- with what grew in the bed below and what it heard underneath.

    Magic Garden

    90s

    Speech creates.

    Also putting words together · more words

  • An animal drawn whole with confetti over it after a child named it, and a button waiting for the next one.

    Make an Animal

    50s

    A grey animal shape with coloured dots on it.

    Also being understood · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A chicken leaning over the corn on the ground beside it, having just eaten, with the word the child said written underneath.

    Make It Move

    75s

    A creature is standing still, waiting.

    Finishes without speaking

  • A kid across a table holding a thing up and waiting, with the things already said lined up on the near side.

    My Turn

    60s

    A kid stands across the table holding a thing.

    Also being understood · back-and-forth · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A pup halfway up a ladder, put there by the word written underneath it.

    One More

    75s

    Something happens on its own -- bubbles blow, a pup gets a leg up the ladder, somebody knocks -- and then it stops and nothing else happens.

    Also back-and-forth · putting words together · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A drawing partly painted in and partly still an outline, its word printed underneath, with dots showing one part left to go.

    Say and See

    60s

    An empty outline of one thing, with its word printed under it.

    Also being understood · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A street of houses built out of shapes, with the shapes to find offered underneath and the one just named confirmed.

    Shape Town

    75s

    A town with six shaped holes cut into it -- a roof, a window, a clock, a door, a sign, a kite.

    Also being understood · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • A letter beside a picture of something that starts with it, asking for just that first sound rather than the whole word.

    Starts With

    30s

    Very early expressive level.

    Also back-and-forth · more words

  • A meadow with a cat, a pig, a chick, a bird, a butterfly and an apple in it, the one just named shown in a speech bubble, and tabs for two more scenes.

    Tap and Say

    60s

    A living scene -- meadow, forest or pond -- with animals standing in it.

    Also being understood · more words

    Finishes without speaking

  • Two cards under a scene: a bear on the first one, the second still empty and dashed, with a line asking what the bear is going to eat, and one dot filled for the pair already built.

    Two Words

    75s

    Two empty cards sit under the stage and the child fills them one word at a time: somebody on the first card, something to eat on the second.

    Also putting words together · more words

    Finishes without speaking

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