| Developmental Area | Observe |
|---|---|
| Physical | plays with feet and toes makes effort to sit alone, but needs hand support raises head and chest when lying on stomach makes crawling movements when lying on stomach rolls from back to stomach reaches for and grasp objects, using one hand to grasp eyes smoothly follow object or person crawling movements using both hands and feet able to take weight on feet when standing watch activities across room – eyes move in unison turns head to sound of voices |
| Social | reacts with arousal, attention or approach to presence of another baby or young child responds to own name smiles often and shows excitement when sees preparations being made for meals or for bath recognises familiar people and stretches arms to be picked up |
| Emotional | becoming more settled in eating and sleeping patterns laughs, especially in social interactions may soothe self when tired or upset by sucking thumb or dummy begins to show wariness of strangers may fret when parent leaves the room happy to see faces they know |
| Cognitive | swipes at dangling objects shakes and stares at toy placed in hand becomes bored if left alone for long periods of time repeats accidentally caused actions that are interesting enjoys games such as peek-a-boo or pat-a-cake will search for partly hidden object able to coordinate looking, hearing and touching enjoys toys, banging objects, scrunching paper explores objects by looking at and mouthing them develops preferences for foods explores objects with mouth |
| Language | enjoys games such as peek-a-boo or pat-a-cake babbles and repeat sounds makes talking sounds in response to others talking copies sounds smiles and babbles at own image in mirror responds to own name |
| Seek advice if: | is not learning to make sounds is not responding to familiar faces is not learning to roll when playing on floor is not responsive to carers is not babbling and making sounds is not playing with feet/swapping objects between hands |
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