Brandy Hendershot

586-935-3203 or 810-434-7797

luckimarie@comcast.net

 

Little Scholar Learning Center of Shelby Township

5010 Nocturne Lane South

Shelby Township, MI 48316

 

Ages 6 weeks to 12 months 

Social Development

• React to familiar persons/objects
• Enjoy simple games
• Give and receive affection
• Imitate the behaviors of others 

Language 

• • Respond to a sound by turning to its directional source
  • Establish eye contact with staff members
  • Babble and coo
  • Smile when approached by others
  • Imitate speech sounds
  • Use single words
  • Wave "bye-bye"
  • Understand "no"
  • Respond to own name
  • Jabber with expression

Emotional Development

• Smile spontaneously
• Discriminate strangers from familiar people
• Establish and maintain eye contact
• Laugh aloud
• Recognize own image in a mirror
• Facial Expressions show liked and not liked

Physical Development

• Hold head erect
• Slide/scoot in various directions
• Roll over
• Crawl
• Sit with assistance
• Sit independently
• Bounce while sitting/standing
• Kneel
• Climb
• Pull self up to standing position
• Stand alone
• Creep by hanging onto furniture
• Walk with assistance

• Track an object visually
• Reach for objects
• Watch movement of own hand
• Grasp rattles/toys
• Hold objects and look at them
• Transfer objects and look at them
• Pull out large pegs from board
• Bang and pound objects
• Hold a cup
• Use pincer grasp to grab small items

Cognitive Development

• React to the presentation of a toy
• Turn to look for a dropped object
• Uncover a hidden toy
• Use noise making toys
• Look at pictures in a book
• Look in the proper place for an object when it has rolled out of sight
• Enjoy placing objects in and out of containers