Milestones Flashcards
1 mo - Gross Motor (1)
- Turn head side to side
1 mo - Fine Motor (2)
- Grasp reflex
- Follows to midline
1 mo - Speech
- Comfort sounds during feeding
2 mo - Gross Motor (1)
- Head up 45 degrees in prone position
2 mo - Fine Motor (2)
- Hands open often
- Holds placed rattle
2 mo - Speech (1)
- Gurgles
2 mo - Cognition (1)
- Follows horizontal arc
2 mo - Social (1)
- Awake more during the day
4 mo - Gross Motor (4)
- Chest up in prone
- No head lag/head control
- Primitive reflex
- Asymmetrical tonic neck
4 mo - Fine Motor (3)
- Brings hands together in midline
- Extends arms towards rattle
- Reaches and grasps rattle
4 mo - Speech (2)
- Cooing
- Consonant sounds “b”
4 mo - Cognition (4)
- Watches hands
- Explores environment
- Anticipates routines
- Looks for caregiver
4 mo - Social (4)
- Calms when spoken to, sucking, picked up
- Soothes self to sleep
- Enjoys eye contact
- Facial expressions
6 mo - Gross motor (3)
- Sits tripod
- Pulls to sit
- Primitive reflexes gone
6 mo - Fine motor (4)
- Shakes rattle
- Holds cube between 2 hands
- Holds one cube in each hand
- Radial-palmar grasp
6 mo - Speech (4)
- Babbles
- Laughs
- Vocalizes to answer
- Looks towards person talking to them
6 mo - Cognition (3)
- Bangs objects together
- Looks for dropped objects
- Trial and error problem solving
6 mo - Social (6)
- Predictable schedule
- Prefers familiar people
- Smiles to initiate engagement and respond
- Joyful looks
- Back and forth engagement through facial expressions
- Shows interest in other infants (empathy)
9 mo - Gross Motor (3)
- Postural reflexes are present
- Sits well without support
- Rolls both ways
9 mo - Fine Motor (3)
- Transfers
- Raking pincer grasp
- Radial-digital grasp
9 mo - Cognition (4)
- Looks for familiar named object
- Understands “no”
- Vocalizes to initiate
- “Mama” “Dada”
9 mo - Social (1)
- Attachment development
12 mo - Gross Motor (5)
- Pulls to stand
- Crawls
- Walks with support
- Sits from standing
- Catches rolling ball
12 mo - Fine Motor (3)
- Pincer grasp
- Voluntary cube release
- Holds bottle
12 mo - Speech (7)
- Turns to name
- Understands routine commands
- Babbles or gestures intentionally for behavior regulation
- Refusal by pushing or arching away
- Attention seeking/social interaction (moves arms and legs)
- Social game: imitate clapping
- Representational (bye-bye)
12 mo - Cognition (3)
- Looks for object hidden
- Trial and error exploration
- Cause and effect toys
12 mo - Social (4)
- Peekaboo
- Pat a cake
- Gives to infants (empathy)
- Joint attention - gives or shows by extending object to comment
18 mo - Gross (2)
- Walks alone
- Walks up and downstairs with railing
18 mo - Fine (3)
- Stacks 2-3 cubes
- Scribbles
- Self-feeds with fingers
18 mo - Speech (7)
- One step command
- Points to six body parts
- 15 words
- Takes hand to bring toward object
- Claps from excitement
- Hugs stuffed animal
- Shakes head no
18 mo - Cognition (3)
- Follows visible displacements
- Imitates using real props
- Functional object use
18 mo - Social (4)
- Imitates peers
- Joint attention: points to comment
- Uses transitional object to self-calm
- Temper tantrums
2 years - Gross (5)
- Runs
- Kicks
- Jump
- Walk up stairs without railing
- Throws ball overhead
2 years - Fine (4)
- Copies vertical line
- Stacks 6 cubes
- Uses spoon
- Helps dress
2 years - Speech (4)
- 50 words
- 2 word phrases
- Talks instead of gestures
- Nods ‘yes,’ ‘blows kisses,’ ‘shh,’ ‘high five’
- Speech 50% intelligible to strangers
2 years - Cognition (4)
- Symbolic representation
- Simple pretend play
- Tries to make toys work
- Strategies without rehearsal
2 years - Social (5)
- Social referencing
- Comforts others
- Joint attention: points to clarify word
- Parallel play
- ‘No,’ ‘Mine’
3 years - Gross (2)
- Pedals tricycle
- Walks down stairs no railing
3 years - Fine (6)
- Copies horizontal line and circle
- Stacks 10 cubes
- Uses other utensils
- Removes socks and shoes
- Undresses
- Indicates void
3 years - Speech (5)
- Follows 2 step commands
- 3-4 word sentences
- Sequential narratives
- What who where why
- Speech is 75% intelligible
3 years - Cognition (5)
- Object constancy
- Symbolic pretend play
- Names one color
- Count 2 objects
- 3-4 puzzles
3 years - Social (5)
- Separates easily
- Initiates peer interactions
- Shares
- Role play
- Understands rules
4 years - Gross (3)
- Hops
- Walk down stairs alternating feet
- Walks backward in line
4 years - Fine (4)
- Copies cross
- Draws 2-4 part person
- Cuts paper in half
- Indicates need to void
4 years - Speech (5)
- Follows 3 step commands
- Complex sentences
- Reports on past events
- Creates imaginary roles
- Word play, jokes, teasing
4 years - Cognition (5)
- Theory of mind, time concept
- Generalizes rules
- Self-talks to problem solve
- Counts 4 objects
- Understands opposites
4 years - Social (4)
- Preferred friend
- Offers sympathy to peers
- Elaborate fantasy play
- Usually compliant
