0 - 12 Months

0-4 months

• Holds head in alignment

• Visually tracks an object

• Swats at dangling objects

• Moves arms and legs when laying on back

• Brings hands together when laying on back

• Props on elbows on belly

• Rolls back to side

• Grasps objects placed in hand

• Prefers looking at peoples’ faces

• Responds to a smile with a smile

• Reaches out for toys

5-6 months

• Sits with support and beginning to sit without support

• Plays with feet while laying on back

• Brings feet to mouth

• Reaches to a toy when playing on belly

• Props on extended arms when on belly

• Holds and shakes a toy

• Puts fingers in mouth

• Holds hands open, rather than in fists

• Smiles at self in reflection

7-8 months

• Sitting by themselves

• Reaches outside base of support to grab a toy

• Rolls

• Enjoys peek-a-boo

• Crawls with belly on touching floor

• Transfers an object from one hand to the other

• Finger feeding

• Hits a toy on the floor and hits toys together

9 months

• Starts to crawl on hands and knees

• Pulls to stand at a table

• Waves goodbye

• Releases objects

10 months

• Maintains sitting for 1 minute while playing

• Transitions from belly to sitting

• Bounces while holding onto your fingers

• Takes steps with minimal support

• Plays in standing at tabletop surface

• Reaches down to retrieve object from floor with support of surface

11 months

• Cruising

• Standing for 5 seconds without support

• Walks 4 steps with 1 hand held

• Walks with support from a push toy

• Pushes or rolls a ball

• Drops small items into a cup

• Throws things just to see cause and effect

• Takes off socks

2 - 2 ½ years

• Throws ball underhand a few feet

• Climbs up a ladder and goes down a slide

• Uses a functional grasp on thick writing utensils (thumb and fingers)

• Imitates drawing a vertical line

• Spontaneously draws strokes, dots, circular shapes

• Stacks 7-8 blocks

• Hand preference established

• Attempts to catch ball

• Identifies 4 body parts on self

• Makes small cuts on line with child-safe scissors and some help

• Functional grasp on spoon and brings spoon to mouth

• Washes hands by self

3 ½ - 4 years

• Puts shoes on the correct feet without help

• Buttons and unbuttons oversized buttons

• Cuts with child-safe scissors with good adherence to a line

• Begins to copy some letters

5 - 5 ½ years

• Skips

• Performs jumping jacks

• Uses wrist rather than whole arm to write

• Matches letters in a group of different letters

• Draws a face with mouth, nose, and eyes, and a person with 6 or more parts

• Copies first name with some errors

• Ties shoes (starts at 5, but may not be mastered until 6)

• Prints a few capital letters without copying

• Copies a triangle