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Developmental Milestones

Developmental milestones are a set of functional skills or age-specific tasks that most children can do at a certain age range. Although each milestone has an age level, the actual age when a normally developing child reaches that milestone can very quite a bit, so don't be alarmed if your own child's development takes a slightly different course.. Please remember that every child is unique! 

By 6 month Milestones

Movement

  • Rolls both ways (front to back, back to front)

  • Sits with, and then without, support of her hands

  • Supports her whole weight on her legs

  • Reaches with one hand

  • Transfers object from hand to hand

  • Uses raking grasp (not pincer)

Vision

  • Develops full color vision

  • Distance vision matures

  • Ability to track moving objects matures

Language

  • Responds to own name

  • Begins to respond to "no"

  • Distinguishes emotions by tone of voice

  • Responds to sound by making sounds

  • Uses voice to express joy and displeasure

  • Babbles chains of consonants

Cognitive

  • Finds partially hidden object

  • Explores with hands and mouth

  • Struggles to get objects that are out of reach

Social/Emotional

  • Enjoys social play

  • Interested in mirror images

  • Responds to other people's expressions of emotion