developmental milestones
Child progress checkpoints
Developmental milestones are markers of typical progress in a child's physical, cognitive, or social abilities at specific ages—rolling over, first words, walking, recognizing faces.
Pediatricians use them to assess whether children are developing normally: She's hitting all her developmental milestones.
Missing milestones may signal developmental delays requiring intervention.
- crawlingMoving on hands, knees
- runMove swiftly on foot
- walkingLocomotion on foot
- first wordsInfant's earliest speech
- babblingIncoherent or infantile speech
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developmental milestonesregression
Return to former state
cognitive decline · deterioration · backsliding · atrophy · senescence
developmental milestonesdevelopmental delays
Slower than typical progression
red flags · warning signs · developmental disorders · failure to thrive · arrested development