Elaborations

• encountering various languages and forms of communication at home, school and in the community
• experiencing others engaging, communicating and changing things in the world around them
• reacting to the sounds and voices of familiar others
• reacting to a range of gestures, signs, images and facial features of familiar others
• using sounds, noises, gestures, eye gaze etc. to gain attention or request an object, e.g. reaching towards something they want
• turning towards a communication partner