Aquifer - Milestones Flashcards
1, Milestones
What are the ages at which developmental milestones are assessed?
2 months 4 months 6 months 9 months 12 months 15 months 18 months 24 months 3 years 4 years 5 years
What are the 4 domains in which developmental milestones are assessed?
- Gross motor
- Fine motor
- Communication/social
- Cognitive/adaptive
What are the developmental milestones for a 2-month-old?
- Gross motor: lifts head/chest when prone
- Fine motor: eyes track past the midline
- Communication/social: social (reciprocal) smile, alerts to sound
- Cognitive/adaptive: recognizes parent
What are the developmental milestones for a 4-month-old?
- Gross motor: rolls front to back
- Fine motor: grasps a rattle
- Communication/social: laughs, soothed by a parent’s voice
- Cognitive/adaptive: orients head to direction of a voice
What are the developmental milestones for a 6-month-old?
- Gross motor: sits with no/little support [no head lag when pulled to sit from supine]
- Fine motor: reaches with one hand, transfers objects [looks for dropped items]
- Communication/social: babbles, developing stranger anxiety [turns toward voice]
- Cognitive/adaptive: feeds self
What are the developmental milestones for a 9-month-old?
- Gross motor: pulls to stand
- Fine motor: developing immature pincer grasps, bangs 2 objects together
- Communication/social: says “mama” and “dada” indiscriminately, waves bye-bye
- Cognitive/adaptive: plays gesture games (pat-a-cake)
What are the developmental milestones for a 12-month-old?
- Gross motor: stands/walks alone
- Fine motor: fine pincer grasps
- Communication/social: mama/dada + 1-2 other word, follows one-step commands with a gesture
- Cognitive/adaptive: points to get a desired object [hands parent a book, plays ball with examiner, imitates activities]
What are the developmental milestones for a 15-month-old?
- Gross motor: stoops and recovers
- Fine motor: scribbles in imitation
- Communication/social: uses 3-5 words
- Cognitive/adaptive: uses a spoon and a cup, turns pages in a book
What are the developmental milestones for an 18-month-old?
- Gross motor: runs well
- Fine motor: builds a tower of 3 cubes
- Communication/social: points to 1-3 body parts, minimum of 6 words
- Cognitive/adaptive: “helps” in the house
What are the developmental milestones for a 24-month-old?
- Gross motor: throws a ball overhand, kicks a ball
- Fine motor: copies drawing a line with a crayon
- Communication/social: speaks in 2-word combinations; 50+ word vocab, parallel play
- Cognitive/adaptive: removes an article of clothing
What are the developmental milestones for a 3-year-old?
- Gross motor: pedals a tricycle
- Fine motor: copies a circle [builds tower of 6-8 cubes], t
- Communication/social: 75% of speech is intelligible to a stranger; 3-word sentences
- Cognitive/adaptive: [brushes teeth with help, feeds self, knows name and use of “cup, ball, spoon, crayon,” draws person with three body parts]
What are the developmental milestones for a 4-year-old?
- Gross motor: hops [on one foot, balances for 2 seconds, pours/cuts/mashes own food]
- Fine motor: copies a square or cross
- Communication/social: 100% of speech intelligible to a stranger, plays cooperatively with a group [knows gender and age, friendly to other children, plays with toys, engages in fantasy play, states first and last name, sings a song, plays board games]
- Cognitive/adaptive: knows 4 colors
What are the developmental milestones for a 5-year-old?
- Gross motor: skips [balances on one foot, ties a knot, mature pencil grasp]
- Fine motor: copies a triangle [draw a person with >6 body parts, print some letters and numbers]
- Communication/social: defines simple words [listens and attends, can tell the difference between real and make-believe, shows sympathy/concern for others, articulates well, uses appropriate tenses/pronouns, counts to 10, follows simple directions, tells a simple story using full sentences]
- Cognitive/adaptive: dresses self, school performance
List the gross motor developmental milestones for all ages.
2 months - lifts head/chest when prone 4 months - rolls front to back 6 months - sits with no/little support 9 months - pulls to stand 12 months - stands/walks alone 15 months - stoops and recovers 18 months - runs well 24 months - throws a ball overhand, kicks a ball 3 years - pedals a tricycle 4 years - hops 5 years - skips
List the fine motor developmental milestones for all ages.
2 months - eyes track past midline
4 months - grasps a rattle
6 months - reaches with one hand, transfers objects
9 months - developing immature pincer grasps, bangs 2 objects together
12 months - fine pincer grasps
15 months - scribbles in imitation
18 months - builds a tower of 3 cubes
24 months - copies drawing a line with a crayon
3 years - copies a circle
4 years - copies a square or cross
5 years - copies a triangle