Your Developing Infant
Are you curious and wanting to know what to expect from your infant’s development in this first year? Do you want to know how to support your baby’s development? This class covers motor, sensory & cognitive, language, emotional, and social, areas of development for infants ages 0 to 12 months of age, including expected milestones, ways to support your baby in each area and any red flags to be aware of that may mean you want to engage the help of a specialist. Full Class Time: 49 min
Module 1 | Overview |
An introduction to infant development and all the areas that are covered in this class. | |
Unit 1 | Your Developing Infant Overview |
Module 2 | Motor Development |
Learn about the 2 areas of motor development, gross and fine and what to expect from your baby in the first year in each of these areas, ways to support your baby’s development and any red flags of which to be aware that may signal to engage the help of a specialist. | |
Unit 1 | Introduction to Motor Development |
Unit 2 | Infant Gross Motor Development: Expected Milestones, Ways to Support & Red Flags |
Unit 3 | Infant Fine Motor Development: Expected Milestones, Ways to Support & Red Flags |
Module 3 | Sensory & Cognitive Development |
Learn about your infant's sensory, & cognitive development, including language development, what skills and concepts are developing, any red flags to be aware of and great ways to support her brain development throughout toddlerhood. Language is a part of cognitive development but this section breaks out language development specifically into expected language milestones by age, red flags to be aware of so you can get help early if needed. Also lots of ways to support strong language development are covered. | |
Unit 1 | Sensory & Cognitive Development: Expected Milestones, Ways to Support & Red Flags |
Unit 2 | Language Development: Expected Milestones, Red Flags & Ways to Support Language & Cognitive Development |
Module 4 | Social Emotional Development |
Learn about expected milestones for social-emotional development, red flags and how to support your infant's social-emotional development and address any budding issues or concerns. | |
Unit 1 | Social-Emotional Development: Background & Expected Milestones |
Unit 2 | Social-Emotional Development: Red Flags & Ways to Support |
Module 5 | Summary |
A summary of infant development and all the handouts you can use from the class. | |
Unit 1 | Your Developing Infant Summary |