Developmental Milestones - 13 to 18 months

⭕ Physical Development

🔸️Soft spot on top of head closes

🔸️Abdomen protrudes

🔸️Imitates housework

🔸️Needs 10 to 12 hours of sleep each night

🔸️Walks without help

⭕ Fine Motor Development

🔸️Turns more than one page at a time

🔸️Builds tower of two cubes

🔸️Removes lid from shoe box to retrieve toy

🔸️Holds foot out to put shoe on

🔸️Holds two cubes in one hand

🔸️Scribbles on paper

🔸️Removes both socks and shoes

🔸️Builds tower of three or four cubes

🔸️Places two shapes in a puzzle

🔸️Puts several blocks into a cup/container

⭕ Language Development

🔸️Says 4 to 6 six words at 15 months, 10 or more at 18 months

🔸️Points to desired objects

🔸️Vocalizes voice up and down

⭕ Mental Development

🔸️Understands relationship between object and use

🔸️Beginning concept of "up" and "down"

🔸️Recognizes familiar pictures

⭕ Social Development

🔸️Feeds self with hands

🔸️Enjoys being the center of attention

🔸️Prefers certain people to others

🔸️Begins to adjust to babysitter

🔸️Likes to look at pictures

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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.