Your baby’s development in their seventh month

Receptive Language

  • May understand facial expressions showing emotions

  • Begins to understand “no” spoken or signed

Expressive Language

  • May laugh when anticipating being tickled

  • May start to babble (manually or orally)

Cognitive

  • Looks around at things nearby

  • Brings things to mouth

  • Tries to get things out of reach

Social

  • Likes to play with others

  • Begins to recognize if someone is a stranger

  • Likes to look in the mirror

Motor

  • May move objects from one hand to the other

  • Pulls objects closer with a raking motion

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/

ASL Words and Phrases this Month

WHERE DAD?

DOG

WOW!

DRINK

WHERE MOM?

CAT

EAT