Peds Milestones Flashcards
Gross motor: Turns head from side to side
Fine motor: clenches fist, eye contact
Personal/ Social: recognizes human faces
Language: cries, startles at loud noises
0-2 months
Gross motor: lifts head
Fine motor: tracks object midline, hands open
Personal/ Social: smiles responsively
Language: vocalizes in play
2-3 months
Gross motor: head steady in supported position
Fine motor: hands together
Personal/ Social: shows displeasure through vocalization
Language: looks for sources of sound
4-5 months
Gross motor: Rolls over, sits leaning forward on arms
Fine motor: reaches for objects, raking grasp
Personal/ Social: respond to own name, hold own bottle
Language: imitates speech sounds, vocal imitation
6-8 months
Gross motor: stands alone for 2 seconds
Fine motor: bangs 2 objects together, places pellet in bottle
Personal/ Social: hugs doll or stuffed animals, routinely gestures to meet needs
Language: use one or two words with meaning
12-14 months
Gross motor: stands while holding on
Fine motor: passes object from hand to hand
Personal/ Social: feeds self, imitates waving
Language: understand no, may say Mama or Dada
9-11 months
Gross motor: Stoops and recovers, walks well
Fine motor: builds tower of 2-3 cubes
Personal/ Social: attempts to use a spoon
Language: waves bye-bye, use 4-5 words
15-17 months
Gross motor: runs well, kicks a large ball, walks backward
Fine motor: scribbles, turns pages of book
Personal/ Social: drinks well from a cup, feeds self, uses a spoon well
Language: follows simple commands (e.g. give me), 20-50 words
18-21 months
Gross motor: throw ball overhead, jumps
Fine motor: turns doorknobs, build towers of 6-7 blocks
Personal/ Social: washes and dries hands, little spilling during self-feeding
Language: 2-3 words combined, points to body parts
24 months
Gross motor: stands on one foot for at least 2 seconds
Fine motor: copies circle
Personal/ Social: takes turns, toilet trained (avg 27 months)
Language: uses pronouns (I, me, you), gives name
36 months
Gross motor: hops on one foot
Fine motor: wiggles thumb, copies cross
Personal/ Social: dresses self
Language: knows colors, asks questions
48 months
Language: speaks using correct sentence structure
Hand-Eye Coord: draws more precisely
Calc/ Reading: reads 1 syllable words, counts to 20, later reads simple sentences
6 years, 1st grade
Language: define words, C/C, speech reaches adult proficiency
Hand-eye Coord: legible printing, ties own shoelaces
Calc/ Reading: reads two-syllable words, counts to 100, add and subtracts two-digit numbers
7 years, 2nd grade
Language: defines more words, recites days of the week
Hand-eye Coord: begins to learn cursive
Calc/ Reading: reads many more two-syllable words, performs simple multiplication
8 years, 3rd grade
Language: comprehends absurdities in sentences
Hand-eye Coord: draws people with greater detail
Calc/ Reading: able to read more complex words, easily uses +, -, fractions, division, x, and estimation
9 years, 4th grade