developmental milestone
Child progress checkpoint
A developmental milestone is an ability or behavior that most children achieve by a certain age—sitting up, walking, speaking first words.
Pediatricians use milestones to track whether a child's physical, cognitive, and social development falls within typical ranges: She's hitting all her developmental milestones.
Missing milestones may signal developmental delays requiring intervention.
- object permanenceKnowledge things persist unseen
- standUpright support structure
- gross motor skillsLarge muscle movement abilities
- tummy timeProne infant exercise
- rollList of names
babbling · memory · stranger anxiety · self-regulation · sentence formation · fine motor skills · pincer grasp · empathy · reach · attention span · separation anxiety · crawling · problem-solving · attachment · walking · sharing · turn-taking · grasp
- child assessmentspreschool screening, kindergarten screening, school readiness, newborn screening, screening tool
- growth assessmentheight, weight chart, height measurement, growth chart, growth charts
developmental milestoneregression
Return to former state
deterioration · cognitive decline · backsliding · unlearning · atrophy
developmental milestonedevelopmental delay
Slower-than-typical milestone achievement
delayed development · failure to thrive · arrested development · developmental disorder
developmental milestonestagnation
Absence of flow or progress
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