SELF-AWARENESS
- Demonstrates beginning sense of humor
SELF CONTROL
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
- Prefers familiar adult to meet needs
- Shows but does not release object
- Tests parental reactions
- Participates actively in social games
- Repeats performance for reaction
- Waves bye?bye
- Imitates adult vocalizations
- Follows simple commands with gestures
- Shows preference for people, objects, places
- Mirrors care giver's emotions and facial expressions
SOCIAL PLAY
- Expresses affection to familiar people
- Engages in simple imitative play
- Drops objects on purpose
- Looks at books with adults
- Alternates taking turns with partner
- Combines play with people and objects
ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR
- Finger-feeds self for part of meal
- Attempts to hold spoon and guide it to mouth
- Drinks from cup when held with some spilling
- Begins to show pattern for bowel elimination
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PROBLEM SOLVING
- Begins to see the relationship between actions and consequences (e.g. light switch)
- Pulls cloth or string to get object
- Uses two separate behaviors to reach a goal
- Notices changes in predictable patterns
- Retrieves using adult's hand
- Pushes away unwanted hand
CAUSALITY
- Uses gestures to gain attention of another person or to make a request
- Uses objects to get adult attention
- Demonstrates interest in the actions of objects
- Repeats behavior to get a response
CLASSIFICATION
OBJECT PERMANANCE
- Secures objects seen hidden under or behind a single barrier
- Unwraps hidden object
- Goes around a detour to retrieve a desired object
- Takes lid off box to retrieve an object
- Recognizes reversal of object
MEMORY
- Abandons goal when distracted (e.g. plays with string attached to toy out of reach)
- Anticipates daily routines
- Readies in response to visual or verbal cue
- Shows surprise
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IMITATION
- Imitates simple actions with objects
- Imitates facial expressions
ACTIONS
- Coordinates actions with people and objects
- Uses schemes differentially according to the properties of the toy (e.g. pushes car, throws ball)
OBJECTS
- Prefers objects with many options for involvement
- Looks at pictures
SPATIAL
- Brings objects together in a non-functional
- Begins to combine objects in relational pay (e.g. objects in a container)
- Rotates and examines objects
- Reorients upside down object
- Adjusts hand to toy
SENSORY
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AUDITORY PROCESSING
- Responds to music by body or hand movements and vocalizing
- Listens to speakers for longer periods of time
- Begins to attend to both speaker and object simultaneously
VOCABULARY/CONCEPTS
- Recognizes names for family members
- Recognizes familiar pet or toy when named
- Looks at pictures as they are named
- Understands at least ten familiar or routine words
COMMANDS
- Follows routine directions with gestures most of the time
- Follows simple directions without gestures some of the time
QUESTIONS
- Responds to 'where' question forms
- Indicates yes or no in response to some routine questions
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VOCALIZATION/PHONOLOGY
- Begins to produce variegated babbling (e.g. dagaha)
- Experiments with different sounds, inflections, pitches, and intensities
- Begins to produce jargon
- Begins to produce word approximations
- Produces dipthongs
- Produces vowels
- Produces consonants: p, w, n, t, m, b, k, g, h, d
IMITATION
- Imitates facial expressions
- Imitates environmental sounds and sound sequences
- Begins to imitate new words
INTENTION/DISCOURSE
- Sends messages by pointing, giving or showing
- Combines voice and varied gestures to meet wants or needs
- Requests or refuses attention, objects or actions
- Labels objects given adult stimulation
- Alternates gaze from object to adult while vocalizing
- Engages in social interactions
- Maintains enjoyable interactions
- Initiates social games (e.g., Pat-a-cake, Peek-a-boo)
SEMANTICS
- Produces jargon-like utterances containing words
- Produces three to four words
- Says "mama" and "dada" meaningfully
- Produces a particular word for a specific item (e.g. blankie for blanket)
- Uses mostly nouns
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