13-18 Month Milestones (Pathways Development chart)

Motor

• Walks independently
• Squats to pick up a toy
• Stacks two objects
• Helps with getting dress/undressed

Sensory

•  Has a regular sleep schedule
• Is able to enjoy a wide variety of touch, noises, and smells
• Eats an increasing variety of foods

Communication

• Combines sounds and gestures
• Imitate words and actions
• Consistently follows simple directions
• Shows interest in pictures
• Can identify 1-2 body parts when named
• Uses 20 words (mostly nouns)
•  Responds to questions
•  Continues to produce speech-like babbling
• Points at familiar objects and people in pictures
• Understands “in” and “on”
• Responds to yes/no questions with head shake/nod
• Understands up to 50 words

Feeding

•  Increases variety of coarsely chopped table foods
• Holds and drinks from a cup

19 – 24 Month Milestones

Communication

• Uses at least 50 words
• Uses words more than gestures
• Beginning to use 2 word phrases
•  Uses simple pronouns (me, you, my)
•  Understands more than 300 words
• Understands action words
• Enjoys listening to stories

2 – 3 Year Milestones

Communication

•  Consistently uses 2-3 word phrases
• Uses “in” and “on”
• At least 50% of speech is understood by caregiver
•  Follow 2-step directions, e.g. “pick up your coat and bring it to me”
•  Understands basic nouns, verbs, pronouns
•  Understands “mine” and “yours”
•  Ask “what” and “where” questions
• Uses plurals, e.g. “dogs”
• Most speech is understood by caregiver
• Understands opposites e.g. “big” and “small”
• Simple understanding of concepts including color, space, time
• Understands “why” questions

The following chart will give you a basic understanding of how the Baby Power

Forever Kids curriculums develop. We follow the natural progression of a child’s

development in our classes. This is the reason we group the children only four

months apart in age.