Your neighbor's son is starting to be more social with you and those around him. When you ask him a question, he typically will ramble on about what he is interested in. He will also change topics to anything that occurs to him
Given what you know about language development:
a. this child probably does not care about you.
b. this child is probably 2.
c. this child probably needs cognitive/language therapy
d. this child is probably 5.
B. Two-year-olds have yet to gain a full understanding of pragmatics and are egocentric on top.
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