12 Printable Pictograms to Simplify Communication with Your Baby!

Karine Ross, orthophoniste

This is the fourth article in a series of 4, to help you with routines.

Smiling baby clapping hands in living room

Before knowing how to use a pictogram, a child must first have been exposed to it a few times and have seen a significant person use it as well. Thus, the recommended steps to start are as follows:

Three pictograms: a heart for love, a prohibition sign for no and a head for not Pictogram wants showing a character reaching out to a suspended carrot Drink pictogram showing a character drinking from a glass Car pictogram illustrating a small red car Daycare pictogram showing an adult reading to two children in a house Love pictogram represented by a large pink heart

An accessible and inexpensive tool to try

The use of pictograms with young children is an inexpensive and increasingly accessible method to promote and support their language development. When the child's interests and needs are taken into account, when pictograms are used daily and are sufficiently clear, they can become a yet unexplored gateway to the emergence of oral language.

Sheet of 12 pictograms for baby's first words: dad, mom, again, wants, loves and finished Astonished boy pointing his two index fingers upwards on an orange-yellow background
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