## North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five

#### Domain: NC Foundations for Early Learning: Language Development and Communication (LDC)

#### Subdomain: Learning to Communicate

#### Goal: Children understand communications from others.

#### Skill Progression: Understand communication from others

#### Age: 1-2 Months

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### Discriminates native language from a foreign language

Situations for Observation of Skill

If a visitor (or other adult) speaks another language observe the infant’s reaction to the different communication.

Elicitation Strategy

No elicitation needed. Just conversation.

Behavior Observed

The infant is interested in the sounds of the other language and will stare at the speaker intensely while she is speaking.

Routines-based Intervention (Embedded Instruction)

The ability to differentiate voices and sounds is important. Recognition of parents is important for attachment. Children can hear the variation in the sounds of a different language that they are used to hearing. Infants can learn more than one language, but differentiation across people is helpful (e.g., one adult speaks one language, another adult speaks another)

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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