Early Childhood
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Infant & Toddler Developmental Milestones
Birth – 1 ½ Months:
- Turns head to sound of parents’ voices
- Tracks an object or person moving slowly at close range
- Shows when over stimulated (hides face, sleeps, becomes fussy)
- Lifts head briefly when lying on tummy
1 ½ Months – 3 ½ Months:
- Turns head in general direction of sound
- Looks at own hands
- Uses crying to alert parents to needs
- Bats at objects
3 ½ Months – 5 ½ Months:
- Turns head to locate sound
- Investigates small objects with hands, fingers, and eyes
- Stops crying briefly when parents approach
- Sits with support
5 ½ - 8 Months:
- Squeals, shrieks, or makes other loud noises
- Investigates things by putting them in the mouth
- Enjoys simple games, like “Peek-A-Boo”
- Sits without support or help
8 – 14 Months:
- Responds, “no,” sometimes
- Can place a round shape in a sorter
- Knows the difference between familiar people and strangers
- Pulls self up to stand
14 – 24 Months:
- Follows one step directions
- Knows three animal sounds
- Feeds self with spoon, with some spilling
- Walks up stairs while holding a rail
24 – 36 Months:
- Follows two-step directions
- Points to big or little object upon request
- Uses the word “mine” or “me”
- Jumps up with both feet off the floor
3 – 4 Years:
- Uses 4 to 6 words in a sentence
- Listens responsively to stories
- Identifies circle, triangle, and square
- Understand the idea of ‘same’ and ‘different’
- Blows nose into tissue (with help)
- Claps to the beat of familiar songs or speech patterns
- Stays with a task of his/her choosing, unsupervised, for 5 minutes (playing with playdough, drawing, building)
- Builds a tower of more than 9 blocks without help
- Can count three items out loud
4 - 5 Years:
- Sings songs and does actions that go with the words (The Itsy-Bitsy Spider)
- Uses scribbles, shapes, and letter-like symbols to write
- Prints some letters
- Puts objects into groups according to shape, size, or length – grouping by only one characteristic at a time
- Names 8 basic colors
- Determines which of two groups has more objects
- Can help with household tasks (pick up toys, wipe table)
- Goes to toilet by self without any accidents
- Aims and kicks a ball
- Gallops
- Shows right hand/foot, upon request
- Builds block structures that extend out and up
5 – 6 Years:
- Answers questions about a story (Why was the child happy?)
- Tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end
- Names the letters of a word, moving from left to right
- Prints letters and numbers independently and copying from an example
- Matches groups having equal quantities of objects, up to 10
- Counts 20 items out loud
- Plays simple games according to the rules
- Ties shoes following step-by-step directions
- Forms friendships with one or more peers
- Skips, hops forward on either foot
- Can kick a ball rolling straight toward him/her
- Traces own hand
- Cuts out simple pictures following an outline
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