Eighteen months

Eighteen months

1. gross motor

   • can climb forward in to an adult chair and then turn around and sit
   • can squat to pick up or move a toy
   • can kneel upright without support

2. fine motor

   • can point to known objects
   • can build a tower of three or more bricks
   • can thread large beds onto a lace or string

3. sensory

   • realise that they are looking themselves in the mirror
   • recognise familiar people at a distance
   • no longer take everything to their mouths to explore it

4. emotional and social development

   • alternate between clinking and resistance
   • can follow and enjoy stories and rhymes that include repetiton

5. cognitive and language

   • use gestures alongside words
   • refer to themselves by name
   • echo the last part of what others sat (echolaila)