Social Communication Growth Charts — find out what it takes for your baby to learn to talk, how to support your baby’s learning in everyday activities that you’re already doing, and how to track your baby’s development from birth to their 2nd birthday.

• Learn about your baby’s social communication milestones and parenting strategies that support early development in fun short video tutorials that you select from a menu by age or by question.
• Explore lots of video clips showing how babies are learning new social communication milestones. With each milestone clip, watch a companion clip that tells you about the supports the parent is using. Explore the milestone and support clips to find out what your baby is learning, what’s coming next, and how to support your baby’s learning from month to month.
• Chart your baby’s social communication milestones every 2 months starting at 3 months. Track your baby’s growth in 5 domains of development to get ready really early for preschool. Celebrate these early critical milestones as you watch your baby grow.

Social Communication CheckUp — starting at 9 months you will be invited to fill out the Social Communication CheckUp, or SoCo CheckUp for short, every 3 months, until your baby’s 2nd birthday at 24 months.

• The SoCo CheckUp asks parents questions about gestures and sounds your child uses and how your child plays to screen for language delay, social communication delay, and autism.
• The SoCo CheckUp takes only 10 to 15 minutes to complete, and results are automatically scored online—so you have access from anywhere anytime. And it won’t cost you anything.

16 by 16™ Lookbook Series — Starting at 8 months you will be invited to flip through our 16 Early Skills Lookbooks to see photos of early gestures and actions with objects that children should learn by 16 months to launch language, literacy, and much more. Starting at 13 months you will be invited to flip through our 16 Early Signs Lookbooks to see photos of the early signs of language delay and autism.

Monthly Check-Ins — starting at 2 months, we will help you celebrate your baby’s monthly birthdays by inviting you to tell us about the new things your baby is learning and concerns you may have about your baby and being a parent. Soon we will be adding a virtual Baby Book feature that you can fill with information from your Monthly Check-Ins and add photos.

Child and Family Information — you will be invited to fill out this form when you join and update it every 2 months. This will let us know more about you, your child, and your family to guide you better to resources, supports, and services, and to help us know about families in our research.

Printables and Web Resources — you can look download, print, and share our printable documents about social communication development and browse lots of great web resources that we have selected for you on babies, development, and parenting.

Baby Navigator is grant funded, so everything is FREE. All of our resources are virtual so you can access them from anywhere anytime.

What if something doesn’t seem quite right? In My Baby Navigator, you will have resources customized to your baby’s results on the SoCo CheckUp. These are to help you learn how early signs of language delay and autism can impact your child’s development, what you can do about it, and how you can build your care team. We also have research opportunities that we may invite you to. You can decide later whether or not you want to learn more about or participate in any research opportunity.

You are in the driver’s seat. Once you join Baby Navigator, we will send you weekly reminders and update the resources in your account on your baby’s monthly birthday. You can decide what you want to do and use and fill out as your baby grows. You can also opt out anytime you want, but we hope you will enjoy what we have to offer you and your family.