Developmental Milestones

Age Motor Speech Vision and Social

hearing
1– When held upright, Cooes and babbles Focuses on  Loves
1.5 mont holds head erect and at parents and parents looking at
hs steady. people they know new faces
 Starts to
smile at
parents
 Startled by
sudden
noises

1.6– When prone, lifts Vocalizes Focuses on Loves looking at

2 months self by arms; rolls Cooes (makes objects as well as new faces
from side to back vowel-like noises) adults Smiles at parent
or babbles Starting to smile
2.1–  Rolls from  Changes  Hand Serves to practice
4.5 mont tummy to sounds regard: emerging visual
hs side while following skills. Also
verbalizing, the hand observed in blind
 Rests on "eee-ahhh" with the children
elbows, lifts  Verbalizes eyes
head 90 to engage
degrees someone in  Color
 Sits propped interaction vision
up with  Blows adult-like.
hands, head bubbles,
steady for plays with
short time tongue
 Deep belly
laughs

3 months  Prone: head Makes vowel  Follows  Squeals with

held up for noises dangling delight
prolonged toy from appropriately
periods side to  Discriminate
side s smile.
 No grasp  Turns Smiles often
reflex head  Laughs at
around to simple
 sound. things.
Follows
adults'  Reaches out
gaze (joint for objects
attention)
 Sensitivity
to
binocular
cues
emerges.

5 months  Holds head Enjoys vocal play  Noticing

steady colors

 Goes for  Adjusts hand

objects and shape to
gets them shape of toy
 Objects before
taken to picking up
mouth

6 months  Transfers  Double  Localises May show Stranger

objects from syllable sound anxiety
one hand to sounds 45 cm
the other such as lateral to
 Pulls self up 'mumum' either ear
to sit and sits and 'dada'  Visual
erect with  babbles acuity
supports (consonant- adult-like
 Rolls over vowel (20/20)
prone to combinatio  Sensitivity
supine ns) to
 Palmar pictorial
grasp of depth cues
cube hand to (those
hand eye used by
coordination artists to
indicate
depth)
emerges
9-  Wiggles and Babbles tunefully Looks for toys Apprehensive about
10 mont crawls dropped strangers
hs  Sits
unsupported
 Picks up
objects with
pincer grasp

1 year  Stands Babbles 2 or 3 Drops toys, and  Cooperates

holding words repeatedly watches where with
furniture they go dressing
 Stands  Waves
alone for a goodbye
second or  Understands
two, then simple
collapses commands
with a
bump

18 mont  Can walk 'Jargon'. Many Be able to  Demands

hs alone intelligible words recognise their constant
 Picks up toy favourite songs, mothering
without and will try to  Drinks from
falling over join in a cup with
both hands
 Gets  Feeds self
up/down with a spoon
stairs  Most
holding onto children with
rail autism are
 Begins to diagnosed at
jump with this age
both feet.
 Can build a
tower of 3 or
4 cubes and
throw a ball
  Supinate
grasping
position
usually seen
as first
grasping
position
utilized.

2 years  Able to run Joins 2–3 words in  Parallel play

 Walks up sentences  Dry by day
and down
stairs 2 feet
per step
 Builds tower
of 6 cubes

3 years  Goes up  Constantly  Cooperative

stairs 1-foot asks play
per step and questions  Undresses
downstairs  Speaks in with
2 feet per sentences assistance
step  Imaginary
 Copies companions
circle,
imitates
hand
motions and
draws man
on request
 Builds tower
of 9 cubes
 Pronate
method of
grasping
develops
4 years  Goes down  Questionin  Dresses and
stairs one g at its undresses
foot per step height with
 Postural  Many assistance
capacity infantile  Attends to
needed to substitution own toilet
control s in speech needs
balance in
walking not
attained yet
 Skips on one
foot
 Imitates gate
with cubes
 Copies a
cross
 Between 4
and 6 years,
the classic
tripod grip
develops and
is made
more
efficient.

5 years  Skips on Fluent speech with Dresses and

both feet and few infantile undresses alone
hops. substitutions in
 Begins to be speech
able to
control
balance not
attained at 3-
4 years of
age
 Begins to be
able to
control
gravitational
forces in
walking
  Draws a
stick figure
and copies a
hexagonal
based
pyramid
using
graphing
paper
 Gives age

6 years  At this age Fluent speech

onto age 7,
adult
muscle
activation
pattern in
walking is
complete.
 Leads to
head
control and
trunk
coordinatio
n while
walking,
by at least
age 8.
 Mechanica
l energy
transfer
exists
 Copies a
diamond
 Knows
right from
left and
number of
fingers