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Social and Emotional
• Enjoys social play
• Interested in mirror images
• Responds to other people's expressions of emotion and appears joyful often
Cognitive
• Finds partially hidden object
• Explores with hands and mouth
• Struggles to get objects that are out of reach
Language
• Responds to own name
• Begins to respond to "no"
• Can tell emotions by tone of voice
• Responds to sound by making sounds
• Uses voice to express joy and displeasure
• Babbles chains of sounds
Movement
• Rolls both ways (front to back, back to front)
• Sits with, and then without, support on hands
• Supports whole weight on legs
• Reaches with one hand
• Transfers object from hand to hand
• Uses hand to rake objects
Vision
• Develops full color vision
• Distance vision matures
• Ability to track moving objects improves
7 Months - Developmental Health Watch !
• Seems very stiff, with tight muscles
• Seems very floppy, like a rag doll
• Head still flops back when body is pulled to a sitting position
• Reaches with one hand only
• Refuses to cuddle
• Shows no affection for the person who cares for him or her
• Doesn't seem to enjoy being around people
• One or both eyes consistently turn in or out
• Persistent tearing, eye drainage, or sensitivity to light
• Does not respond to sounds around him or her
• Has difficulty getting objects to mouth
• Does not turn head to locate sounds by 4 months
• Does not roll over in either direction (front to back or back to front) by 5 months
• Seems impossible to comfort at night after 5 months
• Does not smile on his or her own by 5 months
• Cannot sit with help by 6 months
• Does not laugh or make squealing sounds by 6 months
• Does not actively reach for objects by 6 to 7 months
• Does not follow objects with both eyes at near (1 foot) and far (6 feet) ranges by 7 months
• Does not bear weight on legs by 7 months
• Does not try to attract attention through actions by 7 months
• Does not babble by 8 months
• Shows no interest in games of peek-a-boo by 8 months
• Experiences a dramatic loss of skills he or she once had
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