Question

Summarize developmental milestones: fine and gross motor skills, cognitive skills, and language skills that are typically expected to develop (at age 5-8 months, 9-12 months, 13-18 months, 19-24 months, and from 2-6 years of age). Include a description of Piaget’s stages of development during this period of life – skills and ages at which skills develop.  

Answer 1

Developmental Milestones are behaviour seen in infants and and growing children, like crawling, walking, talking. And all these are considered as milestone. However, every milestone is different at different age.

Gross Motor Skills- 5-8 months

In this age they develop to move their large muscles ,they also learn to balance their head and neck.

9-12 months

Sit without support

Crawl on hand and knees

Try to stand without support

13-18 months

Walk

Walk to kick a ball

Run in hurried walk

They walk down on stairs holding railing

19-24 months

Can run

Walk up an down on stairs

Can kick and ball or an object

Can Jump

2-6 years

Imitating an adult

Climbing in ladder

Pedalling cycle

Standing on one foot

Running around obstacle

Skipping

Hopping on one foot

Cognitive Skills- 5-8 months

Bangs a toy and play

Reaches to toy

Transfer toy from one hand to another

9-12 months

Uncover toys which is covered

Can remove things from container

Love to drop object deliberately

13-18 months

Looks at a picture in the book

Sues spoon

Drink from cup

Will scrible with pencil or crayons

19-24 months

Tower 6 to 5 inch blocks

Turn the pages of book

Point out at body parts ,not many but few

2-6 year

Will tell the use of object, like cup is used for drinking

Can name pictures from black and white book

Will be able to understand the number concepts

Language Skills 5-8 months

Respond to name

Will speak words like a, ba,ka

Like to make sounds with toys

9-12 months

Uses mama and dada

Will be able to say no

Will know meaning of two or three words

13-18 months

Can point out at one body part

Intimates some words

Can point out at some family members in the picture

19-24 months

Will enjoy being read to

Will point out at body parts

Will understand words like eat and sleep

Will ask foods by its name

2-6 years

Will pronounce words like I

Will be talking in two or three phrases

Vocabulary will be higher

Will be useing plurals

Will answer your questions

According to Piaget Theory children 0-2

Will make sound when he wants to sleep

Let the baby play and explore more and more

Play peek a boo

2-7 years-old

Will expand his vocabulary

Thinking and though will start

Will start to question

They will be curious and will want to learn