The nurse is performing a cognitive assessment of a 2-year-old. Which behavior would alert the nurse to a developmental delay in this area?
A) The child cannot say name, age, and gender.
B) The child cannot follow a series of two independent commands.
C) The child has a vocabulary of 40 to 50 words.
D) The child does not point to named body parts.
Ans: D
The 2-year-old can point to named body parts and has a vocabulary of 40 to 50 words. At 30 months old a child can follow a series of two independent commands and at 3-years old a child can say name, age, and gender.
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