Developmental Milestones

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Developmental Milestones

• Infancy Birth to 1 Year

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Physical Development (Infancy)

• Newborn - reflexes
• 3 mos. - Holds up head
• 6 mos. - Teething eye-hand coordination rolls
  over sits (with support)
• EVERYTHING GOES INTO MOUTH!
• 9 mos. - creep or crawl
• 12 mos. stands alone may walk finger feeds
  self may undress drinks from cup picks up
  objects

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Intellectual Development (Infancy)

• Birth to 2 yrs.- sensory-motor stage- learns from
  senses egocentric starts to learn cause and
  effect attention span improves
• 6 mos.- out of sight, out of mind recognizes own
  name
• 8 to 12 mos.- object permanence (things exist
  after they are gone from sight)
• 1 yr.- knows parts of body likes to look at
  picture books

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Language Development (Infancy)

• Birth- cries to communicate
• 6 mos.- babbling imitates sounds
• Interrelated with physical (hearing tongue
  mouth muscles speech center in brain)
• Interrelated with social-emotional (relationship
  with parents/caregivers)
• Repeated syllables single words run-together
  words

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Emotional Development (Infancy)

• Develops trust in primary caregivers
• Needs unconditional love
• Baby thrives when kept warm, dry, fed, loved

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Social Development (Infancy)

• 3 mos.- smile peek-a-boo, pat-a-cake
• 7 mos.- recognizes difference between familiar
  unfamiliar faces
• 8 mos.- stranger anxiety (scream at unfamiliar
  face improved memory)
• Freedom within limits

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Moral Development (Infancy)

• N/A - Does not apply!