Child Development

Sample Child Advocate's Checklist for Infants/Toddlers Developmental Delay:

"No" responses at the appropriate age may constitute a signal indicating a possible developmental lag, if there is a substantial deviation from these values then the child should be evaluated more carefully.

Sample Child Advocate's Checklist for Infants/Toddlers Developmental Delay:

"No" responses at the appropriate age may constitute a signal indicating a possible developmental lag, if there is a substantial deviation from these values then the child should be evaluated more carefully.

1 month

• Regards your face while you are in his direct line of vision?

• Raise head from the surface while in the prone position?

• Reacts to voices?

2 months

• Smiles?

• Looks at and reaches for faces and toys?

• Reacts to voices, vocalizes, coos, and chuckles?

3 months

• Reacts to sight of bottle or breast?

• Can hold head erect?

• Follow a moving object?

4 months

• Will hold an object like a rattle?

• Laugh aloud?

5 months

• Distinguishes mother from others?

• Can reach for and hold an object?

• Vocalizes spontaneously? Social?

6 months

• Comforts self with thumb or pacifier?

• Can turn around when lying on stomach?

• Will sit with a little support (with one hand)?

• Picks up toy with hand?

• Turn towards sounds?

7 months

• Reaches for familiar persons?

• Feeds self cracker?

• Can roll over from back to stomach?

• Sit momentarily without support?

• Can transfer an object from one hand to another?

• Responds to name?

8 months

• Pushes away things he/she doesn't want?

• Can sit steadily for about five minutes?

• Picks up object with thumb and finger grasp?

• Wide ranges of vocalizations (vowel sounds, consonant-vowel combinations)?

9 months

• Can say "ma-ma or "da-da"?

10 months

• Plays social games like peek-a-boo?

• Crawls around on hands and knees?

• Can pull self up at the side of crib or playpen?

11 months

• Plays patty cake?

• Picks up a spoon by the handle?

• Walks around furniture or crib while holding on?

• Picks up small objects-precise thumb and finger grasp?

• Understands words like: "No.", "Stop", or "All gone"?

12 months

• Can wave bye bye?

• Can lift cup to mouth and drink?

• Walk with one hand held?

• Pick up two small toys in one hand?

• Have a two-word vocabulary?

15 months

• Gives kisses or hugs?

• Feeds self with spoon?

• Can walk by self?

• Stacks two or more blocks?

• Talks in single words?

18 months

• Greets people with "Hi" or similar?

• Insists on doing things by self such as feeding?

• Start running?

• Scribbles with crayon or pen?

• Build a tower of 3 blocks?

• Can now talk with up to six words?

24 months

• Shows sympathy to other children, tries to comfort them?

• Usually responds to correction-stops?

• Take off open coat or shirt without help?

• Runs well, seldom falls? Walk up and down the stairs holding rail?

• Turns pages of picture books, one at a time?

• Expresses self occasionally with two word sentence?

2 ½ years

• Plays with other children, plays pretend games?

• Washes and dries hand?

• Can jump holding both feet off the ground?

• Build a tower of 6 blocks?

• Point to parts of body on command?

• Talks clearly-is understandable most of the time?

3 years

• Dresses self with help?

• Walks up and down stairs-one foot per step?

• Cuts with small scissors?

• Understands four prepositions-in, on , under, beside?

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