When PLS-5 Spanish is published at the end of April or beginning of May, 2012, you will can administer PLS-5 Spanish to the child. With PLS-5 Spanish, you can assess both Spanish and English skills in one test and obtain a dual language score that reflects the childâs skills in both languages.LS-4: Age 4-4 Total Language Standard Score 50, 1st percentile. PLS-5: Age 4-11 Total Language Standard Score 72, 3rd percentile. The parent indicated that I have not seen that much improvement, and is upset about the test results.
Switching to Whole Milk. As far as switching from formula to milk, there are several ways to do it. Many parents just take a 'cold turkey' approach and simply change all of their cups or bottles to whole milk once their infant is twelve months old. This often works if you have an easy going baby that adapts well to change. Only giving juice in a cup, and not in a bottle, can make this easier to do.
But as you introduce solid food, their appetite for milk starts to reduce. At this point you may want to consider extra forms of hydration, especially as their activity levels increase. Until they are 6 months old though, there is no need for your baby to drink anything but breast milk or formula. Once they are 6 months old and you are introducing foods to them, you may like to offer them a small amount of water at mealtimes (tap or filtered is fine). They wonât need a lot but those few sips will get them used to the taste and also help them learn to drink from a cup. If you choose, you can offer diluted fruit juices (1 part juice to 10 parts water) but avoid soda and other sugary drinks. Once they turn 12 months old, you may still be breastfeeding but you can introduce full fat cow's milk, or even