18 Months

18 Months

1. Physical

   • Gross Motor
     • Can crawl backwords
     • Can climb up and down stairs using a rail for balance
     • Can move without support from a squatting position to standing
     • Can squat to pick up or move a toy
     • Can kneel upright without support
     • Can climb forward
     • Can walk steadily and stop safely without sitting down
     • Cans run steadily without avoiding obstacles
   • Fine Motor
     • Gross Manipulative skills
       • Pointing to known objects
       • Can build a tower of three or more bricks
     • Fine Manipulative skills
       • Pick up very small objects by using pincer grasr
       • Can thread large beads onto a lace or string
       • Can control their wrist movement to manipulate objects
       • Can remove small objects from a bottle by turning it upside-down
       • Can scribble to and fro with a pencil
       • Can hold a pencil
       • Using a spoon when feeding themselves
   • Sensory
     • realizing themselves in mirror
     • Stop putting everything in mouth
     • Recognize familiar people

2. Cognitive and language skills

   • Recognize that people may have different desire
   • Refer to themselves by name
   • Indicate desire by pointing, urgent vocalizations or words
   • Begin waving their arms up and down
   • Over-extend words or signs, giving them several meaning
   • Echo the last part of what others say
   • Use 6-40 recognizable words and understand many words
   • Know the name of the body parts
   • Enjoy trying to sing and listening to song and rhymes
   • Obey simple instructions and response to simple questions
   • Use gestures alongside words

3. Emotional and social

   • Remember where object belongs
   • Can enjoy stories and rhymes that included repetition
   • Alternate between clinging and resistance
   • Indicating toilet needed restlessness or words
   • May easily become frustarated
   • Are aware that others are fearful or anxious for them
   • Are eager to be independent
   • Play continently alone

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