This is definitely an amazing feat, this little 17-month-old girl can read.  This isn’t staged or memorized for broadcast, the news anchor who visited the house chose random words from a magazine.

At that age she should be still working on speech in general.

Every toddler is different when she begins to speak. Some children (often girls) start using words at around 12 to15 months. For others (more often boys), it might not happen until 18 to 20 months.

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