Developmental Milestones of a Child by Age or Check list

Baby Developmental Milestones

Age

Motor

Speech

Vision and hearing

Social

1-1.5 months

When held upright, holds head
erect and steady.

Cooes and babbles at parents
and people they know.

Focuses on parents.

• Loves looking at new faces.
• Starts to smile at parents.
•   Startled by sudden noises.

1.6-2 months

When prone, lifts self by arms;
back.

• Vocalizes
•   Cooes (makes vowel-like noises) or babbles.

Focuses on objects as well as
adults.

• Loves looking at new faces.
• Smiles at parent.
• Starting to smile.

2.1-4.5 months

• Rolls from side to side.
• Rests on elbows, Lifts head 90 degrees.
• Sits propped up with hands, head steady for
  short time.

• Changes sounds while verbalizing, “eee-ahhh”.
• Verbalizes to engage someone in interaction.
• Blows bubbles, plays with tongue.
• Deep belly laughs.

• Hand regard: following the hand with the eyes.
• Color vision adult-like.

Serves to practice emerging
visual skills. Also observed in blind children.

3 months

• Prone: head held up for prolonged periods.
• No grasp reflex.

Makes vowel noises

• Follows dangling toy from side to side.
• Turns head around to sound. Follows adults’
  gaze (joint attention). Sensitivity to binocular cues emerges.

• Squeals with delight appropriately. Discriminates
  smile. Smiles often.
• Laughs at simple things.
• Reaches out for objects.

5 months

• Holds head steady.
•  Goes for objects and gets them.
• Objects taken to mouth.

Enjoy vocal play.

• Noticing colors.
• Adjusts hand shape to shape of toy before
  picking up.

6 months

• Transfers objects from one hand to the other.
• Pulls self-up to sit and sits erect with
  supports.
• Rolls over prone to supine.
• Palmar grasp of cube hand to hand eye
  coordination.

• Double syllable sounds such as ‘mumum’ and
  ‘dada’.
• Babbles (consonant-vowel combinations).

• Localizes sound 45 cm lateral to either ear.
• Visual acuity adult-like (20/20).
• Sensitivity to pictorial depth cues (those
  used by artists to indicate depth) emerges.

May show Stranger anxiety.

9-10 months

• Wiggles and crawls.
• Sits unsupported.
• Picks up objects with pincer grasp.

Babbles tunefully

Looks for toys dropped

Apprehensive about strangers.

1 year

• Stands holding furniture.
• Stands alone for à second or two, then
  collapses with a bump.

Babbles 2 or 3 words repeatedly.

Drops toys, and watches where
they go.

• Cooperates with dressing.
• Waves goodbye.
• Understands simple commands

18 months

• Can walk alone.
• Picks up toy without falling
  over.
• Gets up/down stairs holding
  onto rail. Begins to Jump with 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.

‘Jargon’. Many intelligible
words.

Be able to recognize their
favorite songs, and will try to join in.

• Demands constant mothering Drinks from a cup
  with both hands.
• Feeds self with a spoon.
• Most children with autism are diagnosed at
  this age.

2 years

• Able to run.
• Walks up and down stairs 2 feet per step.
• Builds tower of 6 cubes.

Joins 2-3 words in sentences.

• Parallel play.
• Dry by day.