# SEAM Benchmarks

## Behaviors Critical to Social-Emotional Competence

1. Child expresses a range of emotions
2. Child regulates social-emotional responses
3. Child begins to show empathy for others' responses
4. Child attends to and engages with others' responses
5. Child explores hands and feet and surroundings (for infants) / demonstrates independence (for toddlers/preschoolers)
6. Child displays a positive self-image
7. Child regulates activity level
8. Child cooperates with daily routines and requests
9. Child shows a range of adaptive skills

## Social-Emotional Assessment / Evaluation Measure

### SEAM RESEARCH EDITION