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Child Outcomes Measured by Individual Growth and Development Indicators

Expressive Communication

The child uses language to convey and comprehend communicative and social intent.

  • Child uses gestures, sounds, words, or sentences (including sign language and augmentative and alternative communication) to convey wants and needs or to express meaning to others.
  • Child responds to others' communication with appropriate gestures, sounds, words, or word combinations (including sign language and augmentative and alternative communication).
  • Child uses gestures, sounds, words, or sentences (including sign language and augmentative and alternative communication) to initiate, respond to, or maintain reciprocal interactions with others.

Adaptive

The child takes responsibility for his/her behavior, health, and well-being, even in the face of challenge or adversity.

  • Child engages in a range of basic self-help skills, including but not limited to skills in dressing, eating, toileting/hygiene and safety/identification.
  • Child meets behavioral expectations (such as following directions, rules, and routines) in home, school, and community settings.
  • Child appropriately varies or continues behavior to achieve desired goals.

Motor

The child negotiates and manipulates the environment.

  • Child moves in a fluent and coordinated manner to play and participate in home, school, and community settings.
  • Child manipulates toys, materials, and objects in a fluent and coordinated manner to play and participate in home, school, and community settings.

Social

The child initiates, responds to, and maintains positive social relationships.

  • Child interacts with peers and adults, maintaining social interactions and participating socially in home, school, and community settings.
  • Child appropriately solves problems in his/her interactions with others.
  • Child shows affect appropriate to the social context.

Cognition

The child uses cognitive skills to explore the environment, reason, and solve problems.

  • Child demonstrates an understanding of age-appropriate information.
  • Child demonstrates recall of verbal and non-verbal events.
  • Child understands and uses concepts related to early literacy skills.
  • Child solves problems that require reasoning about objects, concepts, situations, and people.

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