Speech

• Babbles with sounds such as “p,” “b,” “m”

• Begins to imitate a variety of different speech sounds along with environmental sounds (car/animal sounds)

Receptive Language (what a child understands)

• Responds to their name

• Turns head and looks to locate sound

• Recognizes words for common objects (cup, ball, car)

• Begins to respond to requests (come here, want more?)

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Expressive Language (what a child produces/says)

• Babbles (short and long strings of babbling)

• Uses gestures to communicate (waving, extending arms to be picked up/held)

• Produces 10-12 simple words (mama, dada, bye, hi, no)

Pragmatics/Social Skills

• Responds to “no”

• Responds to name

• Points to learn new vocabulary

• Attempts to “talk” to listener

• Coos/squeals for attention

• Laughs when playing with objects

• Smiles at self in mirror

• Plays patty-cake and peek-a-boo games

• Copies simple actions of others

Literacy

• Can focus on large and bright pictures in a book

• Shares books with an adult as routine part of life

Feeding

• Self-feeds with fingers and with spoon (grabbing with whole hand)

• Holds cup with 2 hands

• Holds and consumes bottle and/or sippy cup independently

• Diet consist of purees, soft meltables (i.e, puffs), soft table foods (bananas, avocados, cooked veggies), some crackers and easily chewed foods (scrambled eggs, meatballs)

AGE 1