Resources
Developmental Milestones Checklist
The Early Intervention Program’s Developmental Monitoring Unit assists families in tracking their child’s development from birth to age 3.
- Turn their head toward bright colors and lights
- Move eyes in the same direction together
- Cries differently when tired, hungry or in pain
- Recognize the bottle or breast
- Become quiet in response to sounds (especially to speech)
- Make fists with both hands
- Grasp rattles or hair
- Wiggle and kick with arms and legs
- Lift head and chest when on belly
- Smile or coos in response to person’s smile or voice
- Follow moving objects with their eyes
- Turn toward the source of normal sound
- Reach for objects and pick them up
- Switch toys from one hand to the other
- Play with their toes
- Help hold the bottle during feeding
- Recognize familiar faces
- Imitate speech sounds
- Respond to soft sounds, especially talking
- Roll over
- Enjoy peek-a-boo and patty cake
- Have different vocalizations for different states
- Imitate familiar sounds and actions
- Cry when parent leaves room
- Reach to request object
- Babbling (“bababa”, “mama-mama”),lots of sounds that take on sounds of words
- Attract attention (such as vocalizing, coughing)
- Crawl on hands and knees
- Shake head “no”, pushes away undesired objects
- Pull to a standing position
- Drink from a cup
- Wave bye-bye
- Hold out arms and legs while being dressed
- Walk with help
- Indicate requests clearly through actions
- Put objects into a container
- Have a 5-6 word vocabulary
- Use 8-10 words
- Walk without help
- Understand that an adult can do things for him/her
- Lie to pull, push and dump things
- Follow simple direction (“bring me the ball”)
- Pull off socks, shoes and mittens
- Acknowledge people by eye contact and/or vocal response
- Like to look at pictures
- Feed self
- Make marks on paper with crayons
- Step off low object and keeps balance
