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Child’s Age

Mastered Skills(Most children can do)

Emerging Skills(Half of children can do)

Advanced Skills(A few children can do)

seven months

• Sits without support*
• Reaches for things with a sweeping motion
• Imitates speech sounds (babbles)

• Combines syllables into wordlike sounds
• Begins to crawl or lunges forward

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ss=”MsoNormal” style=”margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt”>• Stands while holding onto something
• Waves goodbye
• Bangs objects together

eight months

• Says "dada" and "mama" to both parents (isn’t specific)
• Begins to crawl**
• Passes object from hand to hand

• Stands while holding onto something
• Crawls well
• Points at objects

• Pulls self to standing position, cruises around furniture while holding on
• Picks things up with thumb-finger "pincer" grasp
• Indicates wants with gestures

nine months

• Combines syllables into wordlike sounds
• Stands while holding onto something

• Uses pincer grasp to pick up objects
• Cruises while holding onto furniture
• Bangs objects together

• Plays patty cake
• Says "dada" and "mama" to the right parent (is specific)

10 months

• Waves goodbye
• Picks things up with pincer grasp
• Crawls well
• Cruises

• Says "dada" and

"mama" to the right parent (is specific)
• Responds to name and understands "no"
• Indicates wants with gestures

• Drinks from a cup
• Stands alone for a couple of seconds
• Puts objects into a container

11 months

• Says "dada" and "mama" to the right parent (is specific)
• Plays patty-cake
• Stands alone for a couple of seconds

• Imitates others’ activities
• Puts objects into a container
• Understands simple instructions

• Drinks from a cup
• Says one word besides "mama" and "dada"
• Stoops from standing position

12 months

• Imitates others’ activities
• Jabbers wordlike sounds
• Indicates wants with gestures

• Says one word besides "mama" and "dada"
• Takes a few steps
• Understands and responds to simple instructions

• Scribbles with crayon
• Walks well
• Says two words besides "mama" and "dada"

 

 

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*he can but doesn’t seem to want to. always has to be on the move! 

**they never mention army crawling but i count it b/c he can get across the house and he will come to you if he’s whining and you call his name

they (the baby email i get) say he’s 6 months 4 weeks, my ticker says 6 months 2 weeks & 5 days. how old is this kid?! i say 6.5 months b/c it’s the 15th today (partway through the month.) who knows?

it’s supposed to be niiiiice this weekend (17 Celcius.) i am meeting friends on sat. for lunch.  at my fave restaurant. *thumbs up* other than that, i don’t know what’s going on. lots of walks, most likely! i really hope this is the beginning of spring/summer but i doubt it very much.

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