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Early Childhood Development Stages

This document outlines typical developmental milestones from birth to 5 years of age in the areas of gross motor skills, fine motor skills, communication and social skills, and cognitive and adaptive skills. Some key milestones include: - By 6 months, most infants can sit with little support, laugh, and babble. - Between 9-12 months, infants begin to pull themselves up, walk with assistance, say their first words, and follow simple commands. - By 2 years, toddlers can run well, throw and kick balls, build towers of 3 cubes, and speak in 2-word combinations.

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Early Childhood Development Stages

This document outlines typical developmental milestones from birth to 5 years of age in the areas of gross motor skills, fine motor skills, communication and social skills, and cognitive and adaptive skills. Some key milestones include: - By 6 months, most infants can sit with little support, laugh, and babble. - Between 9-12 months, infants begin to pull themselves up, walk with assistance, say their first words, and follow simple commands. - By 2 years, toddlers can run well, throw and kick balls, build towers of 3 cubes, and speak in 2-word combinations.

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Developmental Milestones: Birth to 5 years!

AGE GROSS MOTOR FINE MOTOR COMMUNICATION/SOCIAL COGNITIVE/ADAPTIVE!

Lifts head/chest when Eyes track past the !  Alerts to sound!


2 mos.! prone! midline!
Recognizes parent!
!  Social (reciprocal) smile!

!  Laughs! Orients head to direction


4 mos.! Rolls front to back! Grasps a rattle!
of a voice!
!  Soothed by parent’s voice!

!  Babbles!
Sits with little or no !  Reaches with one hand!
6 mos.! Developing stranger Feeds self!
support! !  Transfers objects!
! 

anxiety!
!  Developing immature
!  Says “mama/dada”
pincer grasp! Plays gesture games"
9 mos.! Pulls to stand! indiscriminately!
!  Bangs two objects (e.g., pat-a-cake) !
!  Waves bye-bye!
together!
!  One word other than
12 “mama”/”dada”!
Stands/walks alone! Fine pincer grasp! Points to desired object!
mos.! !  Follows one-step
commands with a gesture!

15 !  Uses spoon and cup!


Stoops and recovers! Scribbles in imitation! Uses 3–5 words!
mos.! !  Turns pages in a book!

18
Runs well! Builds a tower of 3 cubes! Points to 1–3 body parts! “Helps” in the house!
mos.!

!  Speaks in 2-word
24 !  Throws ball overhand! Copies drawing a line combinations! Removes an article of
mos.! !  Kicks a ball! with crayon! !  > 50-word vocabulary! clothing!
!  Parallel play!

!  Speaks in 3-word
36 sentences!
Pedals a tricycle! Copies a circle! Brushes teeth with help!
mos.! !  75% of language is
intelligible to a stranger!

!  100% of language is
48 intelligible to a stranger!
Hops! Copies a square or cross! Knows 4 colors!
mos.! !  Plays cooperatively with a
group!

60 !  Defines simple words!


Skips! Copies a triangle! Dresses self!
mos.! !  Uses 5-word sentences!

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