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