## 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 speak audibly and express thoughts, and feelings, and ideas clearly.

#### Skill Progression: Articulation/ sound production

#### Age: 1-2 Months

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### Cries to express hunger, discomfort, pain, or distress

Situations for Observation of Skill

Observe the infant during daily routines.

Elicitation Strategy

No elicitation needed.

Behavior Observed

The infant cries and vocalizes, but without intent to communicate.

Routines-based Intervention (Embedded Instruction)

Explain to parents that infants begin to understand that sounds communicate meaning when adults respond to the sounds as if the infant communicates something specific. For example, when the infant cries and the parent responds by feeding the infant, the infant learns that the sounds they make have a result.

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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