Developmental Milestones Flashcards
Gross motor: 1 month
- Lifts chin when prone
- Turns head when supine
- Reacts to pain
- Turns head while prone with nose clearing surface of table
Gross motor: 2 months
- Lifts chin when prone
- Head bobs if held sitting
Gross motor: 4 months
- Props on wrists when prone
- No head lag when pulled to sit
- Rolls front to back
Gross motor: 6 months
- Sits unsupported (by 9 months)
- Commando crawls [shuffling on their tummy] (by 8 months)
Gross motor: 9 months
- Pulls to stand
- Cruises (moves around while holding on to furniture)
- Crawls
Gross motor: 12 months
- Stands alone
- Walks a few steps alone (by 18 months)
Gross motor: 15 months
- Walks carrying objects
- Stoops [bends over head and shoulders] and recovers
- Climbs on furniture
Gross motor: 18 months
- Walks on steps with hand held
- Runs well
- Throws ball
Gross motor: 2 years
- Walks down steps using rail
- Throws ball overhand
- Kicks ball
Gross motor: 2.5 years
- Jumps
- Walks on toes
- Alternates feet going upstairs
Gross motor: 3 years
- Balance on each foot for 3 seconds
- Pedals tricycle
- Heel-toe walk
- Catches ball
Gross motor: 4 years
- Hops on one foot
- Gallops
Gross motor: 5 years
-Skips
Gross motor: 6 years
-Tandem (heel-to-toe) walk
Fine motor: 1 month
- Hands tightly fisted
- Hands to mouth
Fine motor: 2 months
- Tracks past midline (by 4 months)
- Hands unfisted half of the time
- Holds hands together
Fine motor: 4 months
- Tracks to 180 degrees
- Shakes rattle
- Mouths objects
- Reaching for objects
Fine motor: 6 months
- Reaches with one hand
- Transfers hand to hand
- Raking grasp [fingers do all the grasping]
Fine motor: 9 months
- Pincer grasp [pointing finger and thumb squeeze together to do the holding] (9-12 months)
- Bangs blocks together
Fine motor: 12 months
- Primitive marks on paper
- Finger feeds part of meal
Fine motor: 15 months
- Scribbles in imitation
- Stacks 3-4 cubes
- Turn pages
- Uses spoon, cup
Fine motor: 18 months
- Scribbles spontaneously
- Stacks 4 cubes in a tower
Fine motor: 2 years
- Lines cubes up as a train
- Imitates circle and/or line
Fine motor: 2.5 years
- Turns paper pages in book
- Forms an 8-cube tower
Fine motor: 3 years
- Copies a circle
- Strings beads
- Unbuttons clothes