Milestone marker

I found this very basic and easy to follow milestone marker (I also included other because I'm a list maker and lover).  I tend to give this to parents when first identifying if there is any reason to feel a need for therapy services.  It is not the Commandments of Development!!!  Just a helpful tool when introducing the idea of services to a parent for the first time, and something I can reflect on when showing parents where there child is on the milestone markers.  Do not get alarmed if there are maybe a few things your child has not mastered or even started.  Just be aware these are areas development you can work on, and will be growing.

Here is the Chart:

 



A 2nd one I like for Motor Skills:

 

This has also been a check off list I give parents wondering if a child a Kindergarten Ready.

• Listen to stories without interrupting
• Recognize rhyming sounds
• Pay attention for short periods of time to adult-directed tasks
• Understand actions have both causes and effects
• Show understanding of general time of day 
• Cut with scissors
• Trace basic shapes
• Begin to share with others
• Start to follow rules
• Be able to recognize authority
• Manage bathroom needs 
• Button shirts, pants, coats, and zip up zippers
• Begin to control oneself
• Separate from parents without being upset
• Speak understandably
• Talk in complete sentences of five to six words
• Look at pictures and then tell stories
• Identify rhyming words
• Identify the beginning sound of some words
• Identify some Alphabet Letter 
• Recognize some common sight words like "stop"
• Sort similar objects by color, size, and shape
• Recognize groups of one, two, three, four, and five objects
• Count to ten 
• Bounce a ball

I could keep going on with list and different styles of charts.  If you want more information on a certain age, or skill set.  IE. Social skills, Language, Learning.. and so on.  Then Just email me or let Ms. Baily know and I will add it in your child's folder.