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2 months | 4 months | 6 months |
- Turns heads toward bright colors and lights
- Recognize bottle or breast
- Respond to their parent’s voice
- Makes cooing sounds
- Brings hands together
- Wiggles and kicks with arms and legs
- Lifts head when on stomach
- Becomes quiet in response to sound, especially to speech
| - Makes sounds with expression as if trying to talk
- Attempts to imitate sounds when engaged in vocal play with parent
- Follows moving objects with their eyes from side to side
- Holds head steady
- Pushes down on legs when feet are on a hard surface
- Recognize familiar people and things at a distance
- Lets you know if they are happy or sad
| - Shows some response when named is called
- Turns toward the source of sounds
- Reaches for objects and picks them up
- Plays with their feet when laying on back
- Helps hold the bottle during feeding
- Knows familiar faces and begins to know if someone is a stranger
- Attempts to imitate speech sounds
- Rolls over
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CDC Milestones for 2 Months (pdf)
| CDC Milestones for 4 Months (pdf) | CDC Milestones for 6 Months (pdf) |
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9 months | 1 year | 18 months |
- Has favorite toys
- Shows some ability to understand the word “no”
- Uses fingers to point at things
- May be afraid of strangers
- Can sit without support
- Crawls
- Copy sounds and gestures of others
| - Get to a sitting position
- Stand briefly without support
- Imitate adults using a cup or telephone
- Play peek-a-boo and patty cake
- Wave bye-bye
- Putsobjects in a container
- Makes “ma-ma” or “da-da” sounds
| - Likes to push and pull objects
- Says at least six words
- Follows simple directions
- Pulls off shoes, socks and mittens
- Can point to a picture that you name in a book
- Feeds themselves
- Makes marks on paper with crayons
- Walks without help
- Walks backwards
- Points to things they want and tries to use words to ask for things
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CDC Milestones for 9 Months (pdf) | CDC Milestones for 1 Year (pdf)
| CDC Milestones for 18 Months (pdf) |
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2 years | 3 years | 4 years |
- Creates and uses two word phrases
- Says more words that you can easily count
- Recognizes familiar pictures
- Kicks a ball forward
- Feed themselves with a spoon to feed themselves (not necessarily neatly)
- Demands a lot of your attention
- When playing with a book, turns pages, although may turn two or three pages together
- Identifies central body parts such as belly, eyes, ears and nose by pointing
- Shows affection
| - Throws a ball overhand
- Rides a tricycle
- Can put on their shoes
- Opens doors in the home
- When playing with a book, can turn one page at a time
- Plays with other children for a few minutes
- Repeats common rhymes
- Able to use small sentences when speaking
- Name at least one color correctly
| - Sometimes uses five to six word sentences when talking
- Throws a ball overhand
- Understand the concept of counting and may know a few numbers (e.g understands ‘you can only have one’)
- Attempts to draw a person resulting in a drawing with at least two body parts
- Recalls and is able to tell parts of stories
- Begin to have a clearer sense of time
- Understand the concepts of “same” and “different”
- Has imagination and shows fantasy elements in play (e.g may be afraid of “monsters”, may like to dress up)
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CDC Milestones for 2 Years (pdf) | CDC Milestones for 3 Years (pdf) | CDC Milestones for 4 Years (pdf) |
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- Sometimes uses five to six word sentences when talking
- Fantasy play
- Understands gender (e.g knows they are a boy or girl, knows mommy is a girl and daddy is a boy)
- Can count 10 or more objects
- Tells longer stories
- Says name and address (if taught address)
- Hops, somersaults, swings, climbs
- Attempts to draw a person has a two dimensional body (e.g a circle instead of a stick for a body)
- Can print some letters (if taught)
- Can dress and undress without help
- Use fork, spoon and (sometimes) a table knife
CDC Milestones for 5 Years (pdf) | Babies develop at their own pace, so it’s impossible to tell exactly when your child will learn a given skill. The developmental milestones here will give you a general idea of the changes you can expect. If your child is not meeting the milestones for his or her age, or if you think there could be a problem with the way your child plays, learns, speaks, or acts, talk to your child’s doctor and share your concerns. Don’t wait. Click here for more information on developmental milestones | |
