Domain: Social and Emotional Development Sub-Domain: Relationships with Adults Goal IT -SE1. Child develops expectations of consistent, positive interactions through secure relationships with familiar adults. Birth to 9 Months: 8-18 Months: 16-36 Months: Engages 36 Months: Shows emotional Interacts in Looks to familiar in positive interactions connection and attachment to predictable ways adults for support. in a wide variety of familiar adults. Turns to familiar with familiar Reacts or may situations with familiar adults for protection, comfort adults. Responds become adults. Looks to or and getting needs met. positively to distressed when seeks familiar adults for familiar adults separated from comfort when efforts to help familiar adults. distressed or tired. with stressful moments. Goal IT -SE2. Child uses expectations learned through repeated experiences in primary relationships to develop relationships with other adults. Birth to 9 Months: 8-18 Months: 16-36 Months: Often 36 Months: Engages in and may Shows recognition Moves or stays watches from a distance initiate behaviors that build of familiar adults close to familiar or waits for reassurance relationships with familiar by turning head adults for from familiar adult adults. Uses familiar adults for toward familiar emotional security before approaching reassurance when engaging with voice, smiling when unfamiliar someone new. May new adults. reaching or adult approaches. engage in positive quieting when May look at interactions when held. May avoid familiar adults to meeting new people or withdraw from gauge comfort such as sharing a book unfamiliar adults. level with with a visitor. unfamiliar adult. Goal IT -SE3. Child learns to use adults as a resource to meet needs. Birth to 9 Months: 8-18 Months: 16-36 Months: Asks 36 Months: Seeks assistance Communicates Looks to or seeks familiar adult for help or from familiar adults in new or needs to familiar help from familiar assistance when difficult situations such as adults by using a adults hand and encountering difficult reaching for a toy on a high variety of leading them to tasks or situations. shelf. Shows preference for behaviors, such as something the familiar adults when in distress. crying, looking, child wants or smiling, pointing, needs. dropping, reaching or banging objects.
Domain: Social and Emotional Development Sub-Domain: Relationships with Adults Goal IT -SE1. Child develops expectations of consistent, positive interactions through secure relationships with familiar adults. Birth to 9 Months: Interacts in predictable ways with familiar adults. Responds positively to familiar adults efforts to help with stressful moments. 8-18 Months: Looks to familiar adults for support. Reacts or may become distressed when separated from familiar adults. 16-36 Months: Engages in positive interactions in a wide variety of situations with familiar adults. Looks to or seeks familiar adults for comfort when distressed or tired. 36 Months: Shows emotional connection and attachment to familiar adults. Turns to familiar adults for protection, comfort and getting needs met. Goal IT -SE2. Child uses expectations learned through repeated experiences in primary relationships to develop relationships with other adults. Birth to 9 Months: Shows recognition of familiar adults by turning head toward familiar voice, smiling reaching or quieting when held. May avoid or withdraw from unfamiliar adults. 8-18 Months: Moves or stays close to familiar adults for emotional security when unfamiliar adult approaches. May look at familiar adults to gauge comfort level with unfamiliar adult. 16-36 Months: Often watches from a distance or waits for reassurance from familiar adult before approaching someone new. May engage in positive interactions when meeting new people such as sharing a book with a visitor. 36 Months: Engages in and may initiate behaviors that build relationships with familiar adults. Uses familiar adults for reassurance when engaging with new adults. Goal IT -SE3. Child learns to use adults as a resource to meet needs. Birth to 9 Months: Communicates needs to familiar adults by using a variety of behaviors, such as crying, looking, smiling, pointing, dropping, reaching or banging objects. 8-18 Months: Looks to or seeks help from familiar adults hand and leading them to something the child wants or needs. 16-36 Months: Asks familiar adult for help or assistance when encountering difficult tasks or situations. 36 Months: Seeks assistance from familiar adults in new or difficult situations such as reaching for a toy on a high shelf. Shows preference for familiar adults when in distress.