Milestones
Measuring your child's development growth
The Sanford Health pediatric therapy department has developed useful milestone reference sheets that help you compare your child’s age to where they should be developmentally.
The reference material helps you ascertain your child’s posture, balance, sitting, crawling, walking, running, jumping, dressing, reaching, handwriting, language and visual developments.
Developmental milestones and toys in early development
A list of developmental milestones of fine motor, gross motor, language skills and suggested toys from newborn through 6 months of age.
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Development pre-dressing checklist
A list of dressing skills and the age, from 12–60 months which a child should be able to perform it.
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Gross motor milestones
These involve bigger, full-body movements a child makes, such as rolling over, sitting up, running or jumping.
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Fine motor milestones
These are the small muscle movements a child makes when using their fingers, toes and wrists, for example.
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Speech and language milestones
These are a child's hearing, understanding and talking skills.
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Visual development
This is the child's ability to coordinate their finger-hand movements with their visual perception.
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Self-help development
This is how well a child copes independently with daily living skills.
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Additional reference sheets:
Vision
Components of visual perception are explained and examples are given.
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What can I do to help?
Tips on how to help your child work on their gross, fine, visual and speech and language skills.
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