Session 2: Developmental Milestones Flashcards
2 months Gross motor milestone (3)
- Head to 45 degrees
- Can lift head; Sustains head in ventral
- Active grasp
2 months fine motor milestone
Follows past midline and follows to midline
2 months social/emotional milestones (3)
- Laugh
- Vocalizes- vowel sounds “coos”
- Smiles spontaneously and responsively
4 weeks old developmental milestones (3)
- Lifts and turns head
- Reflex grasp
- Follows with eyes to midline
5 weeks old developmental milestones (3)
- Regards face
- Lifts head while prone
- Equal movements of extremities
3 months developmental milestones (6)
- Raise head above ventral plane + legs extended-up to 90 degree angle
- Will make hand contact and hold briefly
- Some head control
- Grabs rattle
- Follows past midline
- stop movement, appears to listen, turn toward sound
Red flags at 3 months old (3)
- No social smile
- Persistent fisting (cortical thumb; fisting of hands indicates hypertonicity)
- Failure to alert to visual/auditory stimuli
4 Months Development (6)
- No head lag (sit-head steady)
- Hands in midline; may have bald spot due to midline position
- May go from laughing to crying
- Follows to 180 degrees
- Turns to rattling sound
- Regards own hand
5 Months Development (3)
- Head erect and steady
- Begin to roll over: first from prone to supine
- Can be pulled to a standing position and can support weight
6 Months Development (7)
- No more head lag!
- Reaches for an object
- Turns to voice or rattling sound
- Transfer from hand to hand after learning to grasp
- May sit alone, but can roll especially from prone position
* SITS W/O SUPPORT - Feed self
- Work for toy out of reach (REACHING)
7 Months Normal Development (3)
- Pursue a pellet with raking (Raking object into palm with flexed fingers and proximal and distal thumb joints flexed) - cannot pick up
- Will respond to changes in facial expressions
- Pivot in prone position to go after an object
8 Months Normal Development (8)
- Go sitting position without help with back straight
- Stands if hands are held
- Repetitive constants: ma-ma baba
- Responds to name
- Separation anxiety
- Plays peek-a-boo in preparation
- Feeds self crackers
- Turns to voice
9 Months Normal Development (9)
- Sits without support, stands holding on
* pulls to stand - Imitates speech sounds
- May take steps with both hands held
- Pincer motion (thumb finger grasp)
- Wave bye-bye
- Object permanence - looking for an object when it disappears
- Becomes less dependent on presence of mother
- Feeds self
- Fine motor: takes 2 cubes and passes the cube (transfer)
Red flags between 6-12 months (4)
- Persistence of primitive reflexes after 6 months
- No babbling by 6 months
- No reciprocal vocalization by 9 months
- Inability to localize sound by 10 months
Normal development: 12 months (9)
- Responds to no
- Stands alone for 2 seconds
- Pincer without ulnar
- Games with ball
- Extend an object and release it into offered hand
- rise independently and take a step
- Bangs two cubes in hand
- imitates vocalizations/sounds and activities
- Babbling
Normal Development: 15 months (8)
- Walks alone/walks well
- Stoops to recover toy on floor
- Says 1 word besides “da-da” and “ma-ma”
- Jargon
- Put pellet into a small bottle
- Put 1 cube on top of another with demonstration
- Manages/drinks from cup
- Walks backwards
15 Months Fine motor (2)
- Scribble
2. Puts block in cup
Normal Development: 18 months (8)
- Says 3 words besides “ma ma” “da da”
- Walks backwards
- Imitates household chores (ex: sweeping)
- Scribbles
- Up stairs one at a time with 1 hand held
- Dump pellet(raisin) from bottle
- Stacks 2 blocks (tower 2 cubes)
- Lifts elbow
20 months development
Go down stairs one at a time with 1 hand held
Cognitive Development: 18 months
Can point to at least 1 body part
Knows 6 words total including mama dada
2 years old Normal Development (12)
- Speech should be understood
- Gains 5-6 pounds and 5 inches
- Head growth is 2cm
- Kicks ball forward
- Removes articles of clothing (not hat)
- Combines two words
- Mild lordosis with protuberant abdomen
- 8 more teeth to total 14-16
- Tower of 7 cubes
- Imitate circular strokes / horizontal lines
* Scribbling becomes nicer drawings - Empty trash cans and drawers
- Parallel play
Developmental Red Flags 15-24 months (6)
- No consonant production by 15 months
- No words
- Hand dominance before 18 months
- Not walking by 18 months
- Inability to walk up and down stairs by 24 months
- No two word sentences by 24 months (biggest risk factor for speech delay)