Eric’s Development2-year old Eric attends an Ontario Early Year’s Centre regularly. His mother is concerned that heis not talking as well as he should. Eric is 27 months old and can say about 25 words that hisparents can understand, but are not clear. He points and gestures to get what he wants and has some temper tantrums when he is not understood. He follows instructionsgiven by his parents or adults at the centre. He is very interactive withhis parents and engages easily with other children, playing mostly alongside his peers, but showing some cooperative play. He particularly likes to play with sand and he gets excited when the sand table is opened up for play. His father thinks that Eric is a late talker like he was. He thinks Eric will talk when he is ready. But Eric’s mother has noticed thathis 11-month old sister is already babbling, mimicking words andsaying a few words and exclamations. This is something Eric did not do at the same age.