Your baby’s development in their first month

Receptive Language

  • Begins to focus on faces and hands

  • Begins to look at the visual environment

Expressive Language

  • Begins to use distinct cries for hunger, discomfort, etc.

Cognitive

  • Demonstrates reflexes such as sucking on items placed in their mouth

  • Demonstrates preference for looking at faces and high-contrast images (e.g., black and white)

Social

  • Soothes to parent’s voice, touch, and/or scent

Motor

  • Raises head slightly off floor when lying on stomach

  • Holds head up momentarily when supported

  • Keeps hands in closed fists

  • Comforts self by sucking on fist or fingers

Sources:

  • https://helpmegrowmn.org

  • https://www.cdc.gov/act-early/milestones

  • www.michigan.gov/mikidsmatter

  • https://idrpp.usu.edu/projects/ski-hi/deaf-hard-of-hearing/early-intervention

  • https://hopepubl.com/product/ski-hi-curriculum/

It’s never too early to start signing to your baby!

ASL Words and Phrases this Month

MILK

I-LOVE-YOU

For hearing parents, from hearing parents

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