Don't underestimate children's ability to communicate even though their verbal language skills may be nonexistent or minimal (Gonzalez-Mena & Eyer, 2015, p. 6). For this principle to tell the differences between each infant cries, words, movements, and facial expressions I would learn their unique ways of communicating by spending time with time.
Many babies who are under three months old cry a lot. From birth, a baby's reflexes will allow them to turn their heads and to suckle when you touch their cheek. Their sucking and grasping reflexes will develop. They can flex and extend their fingers, arms and legs. By about 4 weeks their eyes can follow a moving light, although it may only be for a few seconds. By 2-3 months, they can watch and follow a moving face. By 6 weeks their eyes can move together most of the time. When lying on their stomach they will start to lift their heads and chest and support the upper body with their arms. By 2 months, they
In the initial few months babies will recognise familiar voices and faces, they will try to 'people please' and bay for attention by performing for their audience through laughter and giggles. They will enjoy playing games with others such as peek a boo.
Language Development: Baby will make a lot of noises, often happy sounds and when they are distressed and upset they need to hear a familiar sound such as a mums voice.
Again we should see that a baby between newborn and three months can respond to adults, especially their parents face and voice. They will also show a high dependancy on adults for comfort and reassurance. They will quiten down when held and cuddled and will smile and concentrate on an adults face during feeding.
Emotional- Babies at this age are not unable to communicate so show their emotion by crying or laughter and may use some facial expressions to show how they feel about what’s going on around them. As they get older say around two years old they show their emotion by having tantrums. When they reach three they begin to care about the people around them and tend to share toys with them and play with them.
The physical development of a baby in its first six months of life shows limited range of movement but the beginnings of an ability to respond to stimulus around them. They show their reaction to people, sounds and movement by turning their head toward whatever attracts their attention. They will watch an adult’s face whilst feeding, but have already begun to shows signs of recognition as they will smile when familiar people are around them either because they can see them
Babies from the age of 0-5 months react to loud sounds and turn their heads towards where the sound is coming from for example a toy or voice. Babies this age watch your face when you speak and make noises when they here pleasurable or displeasurable sounds such and laughing ,crying and
New born babies often cry when they are hungry, tired, hurt, in need of nappy changing or just for some attention. This is because new born babies have no way of communicating as they do not know how to speak, see properly and
Babies enjoy rhythm time and peek a boo games of hiding and repetition. The use of blurring and babbling will occur. The bonds with parents are
As the baby reaches 7 months they are starting to respond to voices that they are hearing this is helped by the development of their emotional brain this could be in the way how you talk to them like what emotions you make whilst talking to them.
During this stage of life, babies will begin to interact with adults that surround them by getting easily distracted by looking at their faces or listening to the sound of their voices. Babies will begin vocalising by cooing at people that they recognise and are familiar to them . A baby will recognise the sound of a parent or carer and will respond when they hear their voice, many mistake this for a baby responding to their name but this is unlikely at this stage.
BABIES USE CRYING AS A FORM OF COMUNICATION USING IT TO IDENTIFIY WHEN they are hungry tired or distressed at around 5-6 weeks babies may start to make cooing noises
At a certain age infants begin to resist the unfamiliar and are very vocal in expressing their feelings (Brazelton, 1992).
From the beginning, babies are born with their own personalities. Crying is the first sense of emotion and is used to communicate many different things. Psychosocial development increases, as they are able to express more emotions. Between zero to three months of age, babies can smile. They start to become curious and show interest in certain things. By three to six months, infants can