Motor Milestones

Question 1

Developmental behaviors: Newborn

Answer 1

can turn head

Question 2

Developmental behaviors: 1 month

Answer 2

• Lifts head
• Follows moving object
• Stepping reflex
• Positive support reflex
• Decreased flexion
• Hands fisted with indwelling thumb most of the time
• Reciprocal and symmetrical kicking and neonatal reaching

Question 3

Developmental behaviors: 2 months

Answer 3

• Lifts head and chest 45° in prone
• Head lags with pull to sit (traction reflex)
• Smiles

Question 4

Developmental behaviors: 3 months

Answer 4

• Can prop self on forearms°
• Coos and chuckles
• Toes curl in supported standing (plantar grasp reflex)

Question 5

Developmental behaviors: 4 months

Answer 5

• Can prop up head and chest for a long time (pivot prone)
• No head lag with pull to sit
• Sits with support
• Laughs out loud
• Rolls prone to side and supine to side
• Optical and labrynthine righting reflex still present

Question 6

Developmental behaviors: 5 months

Answer 6

• Can roll from prone to supine
• Head control in supported sitting
• weight shifting from one forearm to the other in prone

Question 7

Developmental behaviors: 6 months

Answer 7

• Rolls from supine to prone
• Grasps and can transfer objects
• Independent sitting
• Pulls to stand
• Prone on hands with elbows extended

Question 8

Developmental behaviors: 7 months

Answer 8

• Can maintain quadruped
• Pivots on belly
• Prone extension position
• Assumes sitting from quadruped
• Trunk rotation in sitting
• Recognizes tone of voice

Question 9

Developmental behaviors: 8-9 months

Answer 9

• Creeps or crawls
• Side sitting
• Pull to stand from kneeling
• Can stand alone
• Pincer grasp with thumb and forefinger
• Transfers objects from hand to hand

Question 10

Developmental behaviors: 10-15 months

Answer 10

• Cruises while holding onto furniture
• Stands and begins to walk
• Independent standing and walking (can include walking backward or sideways)
• Crawls up stairs
• May say some words

Question 11

Developmental behaviors: 18 months

Answer 11

• Can walk up and down stairs with assistance and step-to pattern
• Sits on small chair
• Begins to run
• Jumps off bottom step
• Messy self feeding

Question 12

Developmental behaviors: 2 years

Answer 12

• Runs well
• Can go up and down stairs one at a time (reciprocal)
• Beginning to jump

Question 13

Developmental behaviors: 3 years

Answer 13

• Goes down stairs reciprocally
• Rides a tricycle
• Begins to catch a ball
• Jumps with 2 feet
• Stands on one foot briefly

Question 14

Developmental behaviors: 3.5 years

Answer 14

• Hops on one foot
• Kicks a ball

Question 15

Developmental behaviors: 4 years

Answer 15

• Hops one one foot several times
• Climbs
• Throws ball overhand
• Stands on tiptoes

Question 16

Developmental behaviors: 5 years

Answer 16

• Skips
• Kicks a ball well
• Dresses and undresses self