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Uses mouthing, kicking, reaching and grasping to explore objects

Imitates sounds made by adult

Smiles at own actions and results

Repeats newly learned activities

Calmed by familiar adult

Differentiates self and adult in mirror by looking and patting

Responds with enthusiasm to familiar social games with siblings

Aware of effects of own actions versus others' actions

Stops crying when people talk to him

Demonstrates emotions by making sounds of pleasure and displeasure combined with facial expressions

Resists unwanted actions or objects with expressions of disgust or anger

Responds to specific facial patterns as a having a specific meaning

Vocalizes to get attention

Demonstrates anger and wariness

Supine: May bring feet to mouth and suck on toes

Sits unsupported momentarily; may extend arms forward to catch self or prop on arms

Takes full weight on legs when supported under the arms; bounces up and down

Propels self on tummy with legs, steers with arms, goes backward or forward

Supine: May lift head and shoulders

Supine: Kicks feet

Prone: Increased head, hip and trunk control allows twisting and turning in all directions

Prone: Bears weight on extended arms, may push backward

Prone: When suspended in prone, lifts and maintains head vertically

Moves head freely

Supine: Initially both hands reach, elbows extended, hands open - one hand grasps other joins in midline; later, one arm fully extends with wrist straight and fingers extended - may over reach

Grasp: Palmer grasp, with fingers on top surface of object, object pressed into palm; later, fingers on far side of object press it against the thumb and side of palm

Hand carries object to mouth to suck both object and hand

Prone: Initially, hands slide forward, corralling object; later, reaches with one arm while weight is on other forearm

Release: Two-stage transfer - one hand holds object, second hand joins hold, first hand releases

Shakes objects, first with shoulder, then with shoulder and elbow

Retains one object in each hand

Bangs object on table

Opens mouth adaptively; closes lips

Becomes more active and excited while being dressed

Develops a suck-swallow pattern

Gums solid food

Swallows some thicker pureed foods

Ejects food with tongue

Searches for sounds/voices with his eyes

Responds differently to familiar and unfamiliar people

Uses voice to express pleasure and displeasure

Responds to sounds by making sounds

Nasal sounding consonants

Marginal babbling

Vocalizes “ma” or “mu”

Experiments with sounds such as “raspberries,” bubbles

Varies volume, pitch and rate of sounds produced

No observable sound errors

Imitates sounds and mouth movements needed for speech

Says “mama”/”dada” without meaning

Demonstrates pleasure and displeasure by vocalizing

Babbles to communicate

Imitates sounds

Recognizes familiar objects and people

Examines pictures of people

Pats pictures

Uses fingers to explore and grasp

Remembers how to activate familiar toys

Displays laughter in social play, particularly with physical stimulation

Shows interest in others’ facial expressions

Enjoys shaking and banging

Comforted by soft, rhythmic melodious sounds, music, and movement (stops crying)

Attends to internal aspects, not just contours

Makes vowel sounds and early consonants

Bangs toys

Differentiates familiar and unfamiliar faces

Distinguishes photos of family members from those of strangers

Stares longer at faces of persons from another race

Uses shape, size and color to tell the difference between objects

Distance: Aware of distance and reaches for something that moves in front of a barrier, but not behind it

Anticipates movement patterns

Responds to rhythmic music

Recognizes objects by the shape pattern (bottle, cup, ball)

Explores with hands and fingers to determine properties of objects

Recognizes objects even when seen from different perspectives

Distinguishes near and far objects (reaches for near)

Finds partially hidden object

Uses shape, size, and color to the tell the difference between objects

Uses body to cause things to happen such as batting at object to make it move