Developmental Milestones - 12 months

⭕ Physical Development

🔸️Crawls on hands and knees

🔸️Birth weight is tripled

🔸️Walks with help

🔸️Drinks from a cup and eats from spoon with help

🔸️Sits without support

⭕ Fine Motor Development

🔸️Pokes with index finger

🔸️Lets go of objects in an awkward way

🔸️Reaches for objects that are close

🔸️With demonstration will release cube into cup

🔸️Places cube on cube, tries to stack objects

🔸️Uses finger and thumb to pick up objects that are small

🔸️Holds crayon in a way that allows them to color

⭕ Language Development

🔸️Says 2 to 8 words

🔸️Imitates sounds of animals

🔸️Controls intonations, patterns of those similar to parents

⭕ Mental Development

🔸️Stacks two blocks

🔸️Searches for a hidden object, even if he hasn't seen it hidden, but only remembers where it was last seen

🔸️Understands no and bye-bye

⭕ Social Development

🔸️Distinguishes from self and others

🔸️Fears strange people and places

🔸️Waves bye-bye, plays patty cake and peek-a-boo

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This is a basic list of some of the more common attributes that children learn, but it is important to remember that each child learns and grows at a different pace, and this chart should only be used as a guide ONLY, not as a test of growth.

Source:

“Developmental Milestones for Children” chart from The Metropolitan Community College (MCNEB) covering physical, fine motor, language, mental, and social development between birth and 16 years of age.