Developmental Flashcards
0-3 months Weight gain per week/day
7-8 oz a week. 25-35 g/day
3-6 months Weight gain per week/day
5 oz/week. 12-21 g/day. BW doubles by 5 months.
6-12 months Weight gain per week/day
3-4 oz/week. 10-15 g/day. BW triples by 1 year.
0-3 months growth length/month
3.5 cm/month
3-6 months growth length/month
2 cm/month
6-12 months growth length/month
1.5 cm/month
Solitary Play
Child is alone and focuses on own activity. Not interested in what others are doing. Ages 2-3.
Parallel play
Children play adjacent to e/o but do not influence each other. Play alone but interested in what the other child is doing. Ages 2-3.
Associate play
Not organized but child is interested in playing but does not coordinate activity w others.
Cooperative play
Organized with assigned roles. 6 and older.
Age of: Vowel sounds and reciprocal exchanges
3 months
Age of: Localizes sounds
4 months
Age of: Babbling
6-7 months
Age of: First words
12 months
Age of: Follows 1 step command with gesture
12 months
Age of: Follows 1 step command without gesture
17 months
Age of: Follows 2 step commands
2 years
Age of: Uses 2-3 word phrases
2 years
Age of: Uses pronouns
2 years
Age of: Says name, age, gender
3 years/36 months
Age of: Can carry on conversation w adult like grammar and 100% speech clarity
4 years/48 months
Age of: Can talk about past, future, and imaginary events
5 years/60 months
Language ability 0-3 months
- Expressive
- Startles to sound
- Attends and quites to voice
- Cooes and smiles and gurgles to face
Language ability 4-7 months
- Expressive
- Engages in vocal play
- Actively seeks sound source
- Looks in response to name
- Increased babbling and vocal play
Language ability 6-9 months
- Expressive
- Look at family members when named
- Interest in named pictures
- Babbles tunefully
- Nonspecific dada and mama
Language ability 9-12 months
- Gives toy on request
- Understand simple commands
- Turns head towards name
- Understands “hot”, “where”
- Responds to gestures to bye bye
- Jargon Increase
- Increased imitating efforts
Language ability 12-18 months
- Uses single words
- Uses pronouns I and it
Language ability 24 months
- Uses two word phrases
- Produces a variety of consonants
- Recognizes the name of familiar objects
- 50-100 words
- Uses words like “what’s that?”
Language ability 2-3 years
- 95% mastery of p, d, m, n, w, h
- Imitates cargivers vocal sounds
- Follows-2 step commands
- Mean length of utterances is 2-2.5 words
Language ability 30 months
- Approx 400 words
- May identify some letters
Language ability 3-4 years
- Uses 1000 words
- Mean length of utterance is 3 to 3.75 words
- By age 4 years they have 4000 words and can do a 3 step command
Good head control
2-3 months
Rolls front to back
4-5 months
Rolls back to front
5-6 months
Sits alone
7-8 months
Creeps or crawls
9-10 months
Pulls to standing/cruises
11-12 months
Stands alone
12-14 months
Walks foward
12-16 months
Walks backward
14-16 months