Medicare Part B does not cover routine hearing exams or hearing aids. Medicaid, however, may cover some of the cost of hearing aids, depending on the state you live in. That's because each state operates its own Medicaid program, and each program has slightly different rules and coverage.
Research shows that infants display behaviours that are important beginnings for theory-of-mind development (see details in Mooreâs and Sommerville âs papers in the chapter on social cognition 9,10). By age 2, children clearly show awareness of the difference between thoughts in the mind and things in the world.
At around 18 months of age, children use one object to represent another object and engage in one or two simple actions of pretend play. At around 36 months of age, children engage in make-believe play involving several sequenced steps, assigned roles, and an overall plan and sometimes pretend by imagining an object without needing the concrete object present. For example, the child may: Cause toys to make noise by shaking, banging, and squeezing them.