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- Age range: 32 to 39 months
- Developmental pillar:
- Physical and Brain Development
- Social and Emotional Development
- Learning and Cognitive Development
- Communication and Language Development
- Physical and Brain Development: How children develop
- Social and Emotional Development: How children feel and connect
- Learning and Cognitive Development: How children think and learn
- Communication and Language Development: How children communicate
Around age 3, most children have a vocabulary of around 1,000 words. However, this may vary by a large amount, even among typical language learners.
References
- Smith, P. K., Cowie, H., & Blades, M. (1998). Understanding children's development (3rd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

