This developmental informational chart will help you determine if your child might benefit from receiving Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. Listed are a few skills that your child should have at this age.
Developmental Skills Screening 0-3 Months
Gross Motor: Physical Therapy
- Standing legs straighten briefly
- Laying on stomach, head up briefly (seconds) (2 months)
- Looking side to side
- May roll stomach to back (3 months)
Fine Motor: Occupational Therapy
- Looks at faces
- Looks at environment
- Sustained grasp response
- Hand play at the middle begins
Speech and Language: Speech Therapy
- Some variety in non-crying sounds
- Coos and gurgles
- Babbling begins
This developmental informational chart will help you determine if your child might benefit from receiving Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. Listed are a few skills that your child should have at this age.
Developmental Skills Screening 3 - 6 Months
Gross Motor: Physical Therapy
- Lying on stomach, lifts head and turns to side
- Standing legs straighten briefly
- Lying on stomach, braces on forearms, head up
- Looking side to side
- Head does not lag with pull to sit (6 months)
- Lying on stomach, weight bears on straight arms (6 months)
- Roll stomach to back
- Brings feet/foot to hands (6 months)
- Sits steadily 30 seconds or more, may prop self on arms for support (6 months)
Fine Motor: Occupational Therapy
- Hand to mouth coordination
- Looks at object in own hand
- Looks at environment
- Hand play at the middle
- Holds and turns objects
- Grasp in each hand
- Transfers objects from hand to hand
- Combining toys-banging together
Speech and Language: Speech Therapy
- Reflexive sound making: produces K, I, G, H, ah, eh, uh
- Differentiate cry (true vocal communication begins)
- Coos, chuckles, gurgles and laugh
- Babbles to self, others and objects
This developmental informational chart will help you determine if your child might benefit from receiving Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. Listed are a few skills that your child should have at this age.
Developmental Skills Screening 7 - 12 Months
Gross Motor: Physical Therapy
- Bounces in standing when hands are held
- Sits without support, hands free for 1 minute (9 months)
- Lying on stomach, weight on stomach and hands, lifts hands
- Stands holding onto furniture or with hands held
- Moves from lying down to sitting without help (10 months)
- Moves arms to the side to protect self when falling
- Pulls to stand up
- Lowers self to sit from standing position (10 months)
- Moves from sitting to stomach, creeps forward and sits (10 months)
- Rolls both ways
- Stands without support (11 months)
- Walks with two hands or holding furniture (10 months)
- Turns in sitting position
- Creeps with hands and legs alternating
Fine Motor: Occupational Therapy
- Grip with thumb opposition
- Left or right hand preference observed
- Voluntary release and throwing
- Grasp with one hand while reaching with other
- Pushes a car / stacks rings / turns pages
Speech and Language: Speech Therapy
- Uses M, N, T, D, P, Z in babbling multiple syllables
- Repetitious sounds and tunes
- Uses wide variety of sound combinations
- Inflected vocal play
- Imitates speech sounds of others
- Loud production of jargon - wide variety of sounds and intonations
- Uses all sounds (Consonants and vowels) in play
- Closes mouth without drooling
This developmental informational chart will help you determine if your child might benefit from receiving Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. Listed are a few skills that your child should have at this age.
Developmental Skills Screening 13 - 18 months (1 - 1½ years)
Gross Motor: Physical Therapy
- Walks alone (14 months)
- Maintains balance in kneeling position
- Stands up independently from the floor / squat to pick up item from the floor and return to stand
- Goes upstairs on hands and knees
- Walks backward several steps (18 months)
- Goes downstairs on hand and knees backwards or bumps on seat (16 months)
- Walks upstairs with 1 hand support, stepping with both feet on step (16 months)
Fine Motor: Occupational Therapy
Builds block tower
Spontaneous scribbles
Cups that fit inside each other
Stringing of single bead
Vertical (up and down) drawing strokes
Speech and Language: Speech Therapy
- Uses Inflection with jargon speech
- Some repitition of words
- Uses all vowels (A, E, I, O, U) and consonants in jargon
- Does not make sounds at the beginning and end of words
- Basically hard to understand with exception of few words
- Follows simple one step commands
- Identifies two or more objects or pictures from a group
- Uses 3 to 20 words
- Says "all gone"
- Asks for "more"
This developmental informational chart will help you determine if your child might benefit from receiving Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. Listed are a few skills that your child should have at this age.
Developmental Skills Screening 25 - 36 months (2 - 3 years)
- Gross Motor: Physical Therapy
- Jumps down 7" step with both feet taking off
- Walk down stairs without support, one or both feet on step
- Walk forward 3 steps on a line (28 months)
- Stands on 1 foot for 3 seconds (32 months)
- Rides tricycle forward
- Runs forward 30 feet in 6 seconds (30 months)
Fine Motor: Occupational Therapy
- Cuts with scissors
- Traces a cross
- Traces a square
- Catches a large ball
Speech and Language: Speech Therapy
- Substituting or leaving off the final sounds of words
- Approx. 70% clear speech
- Understands approximately 500 words at 2½ years
- Uses 200 clear words
- Repeats two numbers correctly
- P, B, M, H, N tend to be used well
- Comprehends approx. 900 words at 3 years
- Knows in / on / under / big / little stays consistent this needs to be either understands or uses
- Uses 500 clear words at 3 years
This developmental informational chart will help you determine if your child might benefit from receiving Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. Listed are a few skills that your child should have at this age.
Developmental Skills Screening 3 - 4 Years
Gross Motor: Physical Therapy
- Descends stairs alternating foot placement, one hand on rail, one hand free
- Hops 2-3 times on one foot
- Vertical jump 2½ inches with reaching
- Balances on one foot 8-10 seconds
- Descends (goes down) stairs, alternating feet both hands free
- Skips with both feet alternately
Fine Motor: Occupational Therapy
- Copies a square / circle
- V and H stroke
- Draws a man-head with one other part
- Prints letters
- Colors with direction
- Cuts a straight line
- Cuts out a circle
- Ties a knot
- Speech and Language: Speech Therapy
- P, B, M, W, H mastered
- Comprehends approx. 1200 words
- Responds to commands involving 2 actions
- Uses 800 words
- Becoming very intelligible in connected speech
- Comprehends 1500 words (4 years)
- Uses 1000 - 1500 words (4 years)
This developmental informational chart will help you determine if your child might benefit from receiving Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. Listed are a few skills that your child should have at this age.
Developmental Skills Screening 4 - 5 years
Gross Motor: Physical Therapy
- High jumps over 10 inches
- Backward heel-toe walk
- Hops on 1 foot 5 times in a row
- Pedals tricycle turning corners
Fine Motor: Occupational Therapy
- Copies diagonal strokes
- Draws a person with 7 parts
- Draws pictures
- Colors within the lines
Speech and Language: Speech Therapy
- T, D, K, N, NG, Y mastered
- Consonants (sounds other than A, E, I, O, U) should be pronounced correctly
- Clear speech in conversation
- Can recognize 2 to 3 primary colors (red, blue, yellow)
This developmental informational chart will help you determine if your child might benefit from receiving Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Speech Therapy. Listed are a few skills that your child should have at this age.
Developmental Skills Screening 5 - 6 Years
Gross Motor: Physical Therapy
- Jumps rope by self
- Runs and jumps 40-45 inches
- Vertical jump 3½ inches or more, with reaching
- Jumps down 12 inches and lands on toes
- Stands on one foot with eyes closed
- Steers wagon propelling with 1-foot
Fine Motor: Occupational Therapy
- Draws person with fingers, neck, clothes
- Draws lines through paths
- Cutting out shapes
- Throwing ball at target
- Dropping and catching ball - one hand
- Dribbling a ball - one hand
Speech and Language: Speech Therapy
- Understands 2500 to 2800 words
- Uses 1500 to 2000 words
- Understands 13,000 words by age 6
- Can answer "what happens if..." questions
- Has number concepts to 10 ("Give me ... blocks")
- Knows right from left (by age 6)
- Recite (counts) numbers up to 30
