Months pass, the child grows, gains weight, he has the first teeth. Parents look forward to when the baby begins to sit, crawl, walk, speak, read poetry, sing songs. Of course, at this age period, the baby cannot yet walk and tell stories from his life.
What is available for a child at 6-7 months? Does this coincide with the age norm? All these questions gets up to answer the site you will have a child.
Each mother will be able to answer these questions herself, creating certain unpretentious conditions for assessing the psychophysical development of the child.
Assessment of visual indicative reactions of a child 6-7 months
To identify the state of visual perception of the baby, his ability to recognize acquaintances and strangers is checked and adequately respond to their appearance. For this purpose, let one of the people’s acquaintances for the baby take him in his arms. At the same time, another familiar adult will smile at the baby, gently talk to him. After that, offer similar actions to perform an adult to an adult. The adequate reaction of the baby to a familiar adult – a smile, vocalization, to an unfamiliar adult – turning the head in the opposite direction, pushing with his hand.
Assessment of emotional behavior
Place bright toys in the zone reached by the child. Watch his behavior within 20-30 minutes. Normally, a child of 6-7 months smiles at the sight of toys, publishes vocalization, tries to perform manipulative actions with them: captures them, pulls into his mouth, knocks, throws, etc. D.
Assessment of the development of general movements
Put the child on an even horizontal surface on the stomach. Put a bright toy in front of him at a distance of 50 centimeters. When a child notice the toy, move it in a circle behind the baby. Repeat such actions several times. A normally developing child will monitor the toy, turn his head and with your help turn over from the tummy to the back.
Put the child on the stomach. Put a bright toy in front of him. When the baby focuses on the toy, start to slowly push it away, increasing the distance. Normally, a child of 6-7 months is able to crawl to a retiring toy.
Assessment of hand movements and actions with objects
Take 2-3 bright toys and place them in front of a child or next to him. If the baby does not join in activities with toys, attract his attention to them, show what actions you can perform with them. A normally developing baby at the age of 6 months takes toys in his hands, shifts it from one hand to another. At 6-7 months, the child manipulates with toys: knocking, throwing, biting, etc. D.
Assessment of the prerequisites for the development of speech when a child is 6-7 months old
It is possible to identify the prerequisites for the development of speech in the baby in the process of observing his behavior during wakefulness. But you can create special conditions. To do this, say the syllables “BA”, “MA”, “PA” so that the child sees the movements of your lips. A normally developing baby will reach your mouth to your mouth, smile, try to repeat.
Assessment of the prerequisites for understanding speech
Bring the baby to the toy. Name it. Play with her. Then turn the child with his back to the toy and ask, for example: “Lyalya! Where?”. Normally, the baby turns his head and torso to the named toy.
All children are individual: some kids earlier begin to pronounce individual sounds and syllables, others – move, play with toys. However, despite the lack of strict standards, be attentive to the development of your baby, since even minor deviations from the norm arising in infancy when a child is 6 7 months old can lead to serious problems.