Age |
Movement and posture |
Vision and manipulation |
Hearing and speech |
Social behaviour |
6 weeks |
- When pulled from supine
to sitting, head lag is not quite complete
- When held
prone, head is held in line with body When prone on couch, lifts chin off
couch
- Primitive responses persist
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- Looks at toy, held in
midline
- Follows a moving person
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- Smiles briefly when
talked to by mother
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4 months |
- Holds head up in sitting
position, and is steady
- Pulls to sitting with only minimal head lag
- When prone, with head and chest off couch, makes swimming
movements
- Rolls from prone to supine
- Primitive responses gone
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- Watches his or her
hands
- Pulls at his or her clothes
- Tries to grasp objects
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- Turns head to
sound
- Vocalizes apparently appropriately
- Laughs
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- Recognizes
mother
- Becomes excited by toys
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7 months |
- Sits unsupported
- Rolls
from supine to prone
- Can support weight when held, and bounces with
pleasure
- When prone, bears weight on hands
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- Transfers objects from
hand to hand
- Bangs toys on table
- Watches small moving objects
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- Tries to feed him- or
herself
- Puts objects in mouth
- Plays with paper
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10 months |
- Crawls
- Gets to sitting
position without help
- Can pull up to standing
- Lifts one foot when
standing
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- Reaches for objects with
index finger
- Has developed a finger-thumb grasp
- Will place objects in
the examiner's hands, but not release them
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- Says one word with
meaning
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- Plays 'peep-bo' and
'pat-a-cake'
- Waves 'bye-bye'
- Deliberately drops objects so that they can
be picked up
- Puts objects in and out of boxes
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13 months |
- Walks unsupported
- May
shufflne on buttocks and hands
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- Can hold two cubes in one
hand
- Makes marks with pen
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- Says two or three words
with meaning
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- Understands simple
questions such as
- 'Where is your shoe?'
- May kiss on request
- Tends to
be shy
|
15 months |
- Can get into standing
position without support
- Climbs upstairs
- Walks with broad-based gait
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- Builds a tower of two
cubes
- Takes off shoes
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- Will say around 12 words,
but mostly gobbledegook
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- Asks for things by
pointing
- Kisses pictures of animals
- Can use a cup
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18 months |
- Climbs stairs unaided
holding rail
- Runs and jumps
- Can climb onto a chair and sit down
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- Builds tower of three
cubes
- Turns pages of a book two or three at a time
- Scribbles
- Takes
off gloves and socks
- Unzips fasteners
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Is beginning to join two
words together |
- Recognizes animals and
cars in a book
- Points to nose, ear etc. on request
- Clean and dry but
with occasional accidents
- Carries out simple orders
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