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4 months, week 3
Juli sat by herself with her hands on the floor for a short time up to a few minutes. She reached her feet with her hands. Sooner or later, she would put them in her mouth. Rolled from back to tummy.
Gaze turn-taking
Juli sat on my lap in front of the closet mirror. She looked at herself and me in the mirror. She smiled at herself and smiled a lot more at her reflected mother than myself.
In addition to the closet mirror, I held a hand mirror in front of Juli. She looked at me in the handheld mirror and I made eye contact with her in the handheld mirror.
Juli then shifted her gaze at me in the closet mirror. Again I looked at her. She gazed back at the handheld mirror and made eye contact with me. We continued doing the gaze turn-taking between the handheld and the closet mirror.
Eye contact and gaze shifting are important skills in language development.
A sign of the beginning to understand
The other day as I was out for grocery shopping without her once, I informed Juli where I was going. Juli cried "maaa maaaa".
Recently, taking Juli to the grocery store, I introduced the ASL words food store. She, sitting in the shopping cart, smiled and turned her head to look around.
Before I headed out the door this week, I informed Juli Mother ix-me go-out, drive-to food store (glosses). I repeated a few times and also added, ix-me come-here home will will will.
Juli smiled and busily looked around. I left, shopped, and checked my cellphone for a new message. I felt tempted to text Dude and asked how it was. Nope, I came back home and found Juli in happy state. We greeted.
In the past weeks, I observed Juli's responses at the end of my utterances. Sometimes Juli looked at me with pondering eyebrows. Sometimes, she kicked and waved excitedly. Sometimes she smiled at the end of my utterances.
ASL vocabulary
The ASL words that I used with Juli this week are as follows: drive(car), food shopping, cook food, apple, foot ... and the usuals.
ASL milestones (L1)
- 0;0,0: Raising a bilingual child
- 0;0,1: Making first eye contact
- 0;0,2: Imitating movements and cooing
- 0;0,3: Using senses and technology
- 0;0,4: Acquiring language via interaction
- 0;1,1: Manual cooing
- 0;1,2: Following objects or people with eyes
- 0;1,3: First smiles
- 0;1,4: Using ASL nursery rhymes
- 0;2,1: Gaining more control over her body
- 0;2,2: Observing and listening to parentese
- 0;2,3: Exploring the world
- 0;2,4: Eye-hand coordination beginning; Exploring hands and objects
- 0;2,5: Communicating through body language
- 0;3,1: Gaze shifting between picture and ASL word
- 0;3,2: Communicating with eyes; Visually tracking 180 degrees
- 0;3,3: Bringing hands together
- 0;3,4: Grabbing objects within reach; gaze shifting
- 0;4,1: Gaze shifting between face and fingerspelling
- 0;4;2: Bringing hands to mouth; turn-taking
- 0;4,3: Playing contact eye game
- 0;4,4: Playing with hands, the precursor to babbling
- 0;5,1: Communicating by patting or tapping
- 0;5,2: The emergence of marginal babbling
- 0;5,3: Gaze-following turn-taking conversation
- 0;5,4: Distinguishing ASL words from animal visues
- 0;5,5: Paying attention to details
- 0;6,1: Learning the concept of object permanence
- 0;6,2: Beginning to understand what is being said
- 0;6,3: The emergence of razzy visues
- 0;6,4: The emergence of canonical babbling
- 0;7,1: Developing intentional communication
- 0;7,2: Developing an association of concept with word
- 0;7,3: Manipulating objects back and forth
- 0;7,4: The emergence of other syllabic babbles
- 0;8,1: Demonstrating constraints in syllabic babbling
- 0;8,2: The emergence of variegated babbling
- 0;8,3: Waving bye-bye
- 0;8,4: The emergence of pointing for direction
- 0;8,5: Connecting word to object or picture
- 0;9,1: The emergence of pointing for names
- 0;9,2: The emergence of finger babbling
- 0;9,3: Pointing at pictures for names
- 0;9,4: The early emergence of recognizable words
- 0;10,1: Emerging referential words: finish + music
- 0;10,2: Emerging ASL words: mother + music
- 0;10,3: Emerging ASL words: eat + more
- 0;10,4: Categorizing a group of referents
- 0;11,1: Responding to simple requests
- 0;11,2: Recognizing an ASL word in the video
- 0;11,3: Producing ASL words on torso; multipointing
- 0;11,4: Combining gestural pointing with ASL words
- 0;11,5: Combining an ASL word with razzy
