Therapy Team

 

 

Movement milestones

• Gets to sitting position without assistance

• Crawls forward on belly

• Assumes hand and knee position

• Creeps on hands and knees

• Gets from sitting to crawling or prone (lying on stomach) position

• Pulls self up to standing position

• Walks holding on to furniture

• Stands momentarily without support

• Takes two or three steps without support

 

Hand and Finger milestones

• Uses pincer grasp

• Bangs two one-inch cubes together

• Puts objects into container and takes objects out of container

• Pokes with index finger

• Tries to imitate scribbling

 

Language milestones

• Responds to simple verbal requests

• Responds to "no"

• Makes simple gestures such as shaking head for no

• Babbles with inflection

• Babbles "dada" and "mama"

• Says "dada" and "mama" for specific person

• Uses exclamations such as "uh-oh"

 

Cognitive milestones

• Explores objects in many different ways (shaking, banging, throwing and dropping)

• Finds hidden objects easily

• Looks at correct picture when image is named

• Imitates gestures

 

Social/Emotional milestones

• Appears shy or anxious with strangers

• Cries when mother or father leaves

• Enjoys imitating people in his play

• Shows specific preferences for certain people and toys

• Prefers mother and/or regular care provider over all others

• Repeats sounds or gestures for attention

• Begins to finger-feed himself

• Extends arm or leg to help when being dressed