At what age can children usually identify the odd one out in a category?

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Say if there were pictures of a tiger, dog, giraffe and chair, they would know to pick out the chair as being odd one out? DS (3.11) can't do this, so wondered if he was very behind or it's normal for his age.

TIA

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I really don't know whether DS (4.3) could do that or not. I will find out some time and let you know.

Think that DS (3.9) can do this as he had a workbook type thing in his Christmas stocking and I'm sure it had these sort of puzzles in.

Thanks Snice and Idris.

ooops and thanks to bint as well, if you permit that abbreviation!

DS had to do lots of those. I'd say between 3 and 4 but can't remember more precisely. Why are you doing that? (We did it with DS as he was behind with language.)

ds is almost 3 and he can do the odd one out game on Jimjam and Sunny on CITV. Usually 3 object the same like 3 cars and 1 plane or 4 chairs where 3 are small and 1 is big. I don't think he could do one like your example.

DS2 could do that when he was only just 3 - but he's got an incredibly (almost scary sometimes!) logical/mathematical brain so I don't read too much into that

DS1 was much closer to 4 (but perhaps slightly older?)

because DS is very behind with his language too Cristina! He's going to be seeing an ed psych and having some cognitive tests in 4/5 months, so I imagine that's the sort of thing they would expect him to be able to do.

My dd (3.5) can do this.

BUT.

She also occasionally throws me by picking odd things according to her own crazy logic, so in your example she could say erm, the dog's the odd one out because the others are all patterned. (ok bad example but yswim) I think she's just taking the piss actually she does do it with a grin

I don't think at 4 it is a particular note personally. Certainly not without other issues.

oops missed some more, thanks to everyone else.

slur - unfortunately bagfuls of language issues (in particular receptive language).

sorry xposts there TC.

Have they given you an indication of what they might be concerned about?

infact thinking about it I don't think I could really ever use DS2 as an "example" of ages that babies/children do stuff - he's just too wierd for that LOL (in the nicest possible way) - but come on - how many 20 month old children when asked "how many fingers have you got" or "how many fingers is mummy holding up" (when all fingers and thumbs are showing) turns round and says "8" you say "10" (and help them count) ......and then they "correct" you saying that you have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs .

Poor DS1 (7) (who is doing very well at school) feels quite irritated at times at how quickly his little brother learns things that he has been learning at school LOL.

not really - though reading between the lines, probably ASD and/or some other form of learning difficulties other than language problems.

TC - I used to scour this site regularly for ideas of things to do with DS and what stage to be aiming for etc. He's profoundly deaf but has caught up with language (he has a cochlear implant nowadays).

Well, I think it is unlikely to indicate anything on its own but it is good you are getting assessed particularly with the language issues as well, early intervention - if necessary - can be really good (I've seen from friends).

Thanks for the link Cristina.

You're welcome. You can spend many nights on it. I find language stuff fascinating. Now DD2 (5 months) is deaf too, so I'm starting all over again, but this time without the fear for the future.

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Ds can do this (2.10) but he's always been very good at categorising things (that's a flower, that's a bird etc). All children do things at different ages anyway - some will be better at somethings than others sooner, and some will never be any good at some things. (Dh is a good example, he can be very accurate and particular at some things but is hopeless if you put a power tool in his hand and expect him to put up a shelf - it would be crooked and fall down in no time)