- Confidence: The child has a sense of being successful and that adults will be helpful.
- Curiosity: The child has a sense that learning is positive and pleasurable.
- Intentionality: The child has a desire to and the capacity to have an impact and to act upon that with persistence.
- Self-control: The child can control personal actions in age-appropriate ways.
- Relatedness: The child can engage with others, can understand, and can be understood.
- Capacity to communicate: The child wants to and has the ability to communicate.
- Cooperativeness: The child has the ability to balance own needs with those of others in a group activity.
Adapted from Zero to Three, 1992.
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Excerpt from Assessment of Children & Youth with Special Needs, by L.G. Cohen, L.J. Spenciner, 2007 edition, p. 318.
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