Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Language Development domain, the strand Attending and Understanding includes the foundation Being Attentive to Communication. Children from 4 through 11 months focus on the face, hands, or voice of a person who is communicating with them.
Example 1
Text on screen: Focuses on face, hands, voice of person communicating with them
On screen: 11-month-old Sebastian sits facing his caregiver. He is mouthing a toy and looking intently at her face as she sings a good morning song in Spanish.
Caregivers 1 & 2: (singing in Spanish) Good morning. Good morning. How are you? How are you? Very well, thank you. Very well, thank you. And you? And you? Yay!
On screen: After the song ends, Sebastian looks away.
Example 2
Text on screen: Focuses on hands of person communicating with them
On screen: 9-month-old Skye sits with her caregiver next to a clear tube attached to a riser. The caregiver reaches into the tube to pick up a soft ball. She taps inside the tube to get Skye’s attention. Skye looks at the hand in the tube and places her own hand on the tube. She laughs.
Caregiver 3: Skye. (fingers tapping)
Skye: (laughing)
On screen: Skye watches intently as her caregiver slowly pulls her hand out of the tube and offers Skye the ball.
Text on screen: Focuses on face of person communicating
On screen: Skye takes the ball, focuses on her caregiver’s face to look into her eyes, and looks back at the ball.
Caregiver 3: Yeah. And here it is! Yeah.
Example 3
Text on screen: Focuses on voice of the person communicating with them and follows person’s gestures
On screen: 9-month-old Aaliyah sits in her caregiver’s lap, facing outward. The caregiver speaks to a child nearby.
Caregiver 4: Are you looking at your – are you looking at the reflection?
On screen: The caregiver begins playing peek-a-boo with Aaliyah, holding a sheer scarf in front of Aaliyah’s face and then dropping it down. Aaliyah watches and smiles as the caregiver holds up the scarf in front of her.
Caregiver 4: Oh, where is Sheni? (gasps)
On screen: The scarf drops again. Aaliyah watches and grins.
Caregiver 4: Aaliyah, where’s Sheni? Peekaboo!
On screen: The caregiver holds up the scarf again, and Aaliyah looks through it and smiles.
Caregiver 4: Where is Skye?
On screen: The caregiver drops the scarf again and points to another child. Aaliyah turns her head to look where the caregiver is pointing. Aaliyah watches the other child.
Caregiver 4: There she is. Look at, Skye’s over there. See her? Walking around.
On screen: The caregiver points to a different child and Aaliyah shifts her gaze to the other child.
Caregiver 4: And Kailani’s discovering.