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Developmental Milestones

You are your child’s best advocate!

Help Me Grow shares some helpful ways to support their development.

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Learn about developmental health & milestones

  • Ask your provider for developmental screenings and discuss appropriate follow up.
  • Track your child’s developmental health using a developmental screening passport.

Be their advocate

  • Monitor your child’s physical, social, and emotional needs.
  • Ask your providers questions and voice your concerns.
  • Stay up-to-date on recommended immunizations and screenings.

Become an early childhood leader

  • Learn more about protecting and promoting child well-being at kcsl.org
  • Join a Parent and Caregiver Fireside Chat and create connections with other parents and caregivers across the state. Find out more at allinforkansas-kids.org

Explore By Age

By 4 Months

  1. Lift head and chest while laying on stomach.
  2. Smile when smiled at
.
  3. Cry in different ways to tell different needs
.
  4. Follow a moving object or person with eyes.
  5. Turn toward the sound of a human voice human voice
.
  6. Grasp a rattle

By 6 Months

  1. Coo, giggle, and make lots of sounds.
  2. Hold head up and look around.
  3. Reach for and grasp objects.
  4. Push up with hands and knees.
  5. Sit with support Know familiar faces.
  6. Roll over.

By 9 Months

  1. Act shy, clingy, happy, or sad.
  2. Sit up without much help.
  3. Begin to pull up and stand.
  4. Put toys in container and dump them out.
  5. Make sounds like real words (mama, dada, nana).
  6. Play simple games like “all gone” or “so big”

By 12 Months

  1. Stand alone for a moment.
  2. Crawl on hands and knees.
  3. Walk with one hand held.
  4. Respond to music with body motion.
  5. Eat finger foods without help.
  6. Understand simple commands.
  7. Say their first word.

By 18 Months

  1. Likes to pull, push, and take things apart.
  2. Cling to caretaker in new situations.
  3. Walk without help.
  4. Turn pages in a book.
  5. Says 3+ words you can understand.
  6. Ask specifically for mother or father.

By 2 Years

  1. Use 2- to 3-word sentences.
  2. Treat a doll or stuffed animal as though it were alive.
  3. Walk, run, + climb without help.
  4. Sing songs or say rhymes.
  5. Sometimes get tired, angry, or upset.
  6. Verbalize desires + feelings.
  7. 
Notice others are hurt of upset.

By 3 Years

  1. Calms self when upset.
  2. Knows and can say first name.
  3. Look through a book alone.
  4. Remember what happened yesterday.
  5. Count 2 to 3 objects.
  6. Match circles and squares.

By 4 Years

  1. Hold a pencil and try to write name.
  2. Identify situations that would lead to happiness,
sadness, or anger.
  3. 
Catch a bouncing ball.
  4. 
Sort by shape or color.
  5. Want explanations of “why” and “how”.
  6. Buckle, button, and lace with help

By 5 years

  1. Dress and undress his or herself (supervision may be needed).
  2. Draw simple figures or objects.
Protect younger children.
  3. 
Copy name in large irregular letters.
  4. Invent make-believe games with simple rules.
  5. 
Hop on one foot.
  6. 
Count to 10.

Resources

Developmental Screening Tracker

It is a way to check your child’s development. It can show if your child is on track or if he or she might benefit from extra support.

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Milestone Activity Cards

Record your child’s milestone moments with these fun activity cards. They help you stay on track with your child’s developmental health and progress.

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