Development

Question 1

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 2 months

Answer 1

Gross Motor: Head lag, limbs flexed
Fine Motor and Vision: turn head to follow object/face
Speech and language + Hearing: Startles to loud noises
Social, emotional, behavioral: smiles at parent

Question 2

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 4 months

Answer 2

Gross Motor: Turn front to back
Fine Motor and Vision: Reach for object
Speech and language + Hearing: makes noises
Social, emotional, behavioral: cries vary

Question 3

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 6 months

Answer 3

Gross Motor: turn back to front
Fine Motor and Vision: transfer objects
Speech and language + Hearing: orients to sound outside of sight
Social, emotional, behavioral: smiles at self in mirror

Question 4

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 9 months

Answer 4

Gross Motor: sit up and pull to stand
Fine Motor and Vision: immature pincer
Speech and language + Hearing: Dada inappropriately
Social, emotional, behavioral: self feed Peekaboo

Question 5

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 12 months

Answer 5

Gross Motor: First steps (unsteady)
Fine Motor and Vision: mature pincer
Speech and language + Hearing: dada and mama appropriately
Social, emotional, behavioral: self-drink object permanence

Question 6

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 18 months

Answer 6

Gross Motor: Walks steadily
Fine Motor and Vision: Scribble
Speech and language + Hearing: 5-10 vocab
Social, emotional, behavioral: Uses spoon

Question 7

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 2

Answer 7

Gross Motor: Jump, kick, throw
Fine Motor and Vision: Draw line
Speech and language + Hearing: 2-3 word sentences
Social, emotional, behavioral: Symbolic play

Question 8

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 3

Answer 8

Gross Motor: Walk upstairs
Fine Motor and Vision: Draw circle
Speech and language + Hearing: 4-5 word sentences
Social, emotional, behavioral: Parallel play (playing side by side but no interaction)

Question 9

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 4

Answer 9

Gross Motor: Balance on 1 leg
Fine Motor and Vision: Draw square (3 and a half can draw a cross)
Speech and language + Hearing: speech understandable
Social, emotional, behavioral: Interactive play

Question 10

What are the developmental milestones that you expect of a child/infant aged 5

Answer 10

Gross Motor: Heel-toe walk
Fine Motor and Vision: Draw Triangle
Speech and language + Hearing: Can write name
Social, emotional, behavioral: toilet trained