Understanding Victory

Babies begin the complex and seemingly miraculous process of decoding human language at birth. It is a process that we tend to take for granted except, of course, when it does not happen.

After young children develop an understanding of meaningful sounds, they begin to understand words and, finally, simple sentences.

When a child can understand at least two thousand words and hundreds of simple sentences, he has reached a major milestone in his quest for neurological maturity.

At this stage he can understand two-step or three-step instructions, and grasp the concept of tomorrow and yesterday. He has, in other words, all the basics of human auditory understanding of language.

For the average child this process takes three years to achieve. When a child begins to understand language as well as or better than an average three-year-old, he or she has earned an Understanding Victory.