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Oral Motor
Explore objects with mouth1
Suckling modified - using more active sucking on bottles, liquid loss at corners of mouth6
Teething, increase in drooling6
May begin to receive solids (typically begins with rice cereal)6,14
Suckling on spoon with phasic up and down jaw movements6
Figure 5.20.1
Figure 5.20.1
Explores objects with mouth; teething
Figure 5.20.2
Figure 5.20.2
May begin to receive solids; suckling on spoon with phasic up and down jaw movements.
Figure 5.20.3
Figure 5.20.3
May begin solids (e.g., rice cereal)
Figure 5.20.4
Figure 5.20.4
Infant approaches spoon with head; lips close on spoon; sucks on spoon with phasic up and down jaw movements
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