By 12 Months

Cognition:

  • Plays peek-a-boo
  • Follows trajectory of fast moving objects
  • Looks for family members or pets when named
  • Retains two or three objects
  • Turns head and shoulders to find hidden sound
  • Imitates familiar and new gesture

Communication:

  • Initiates vocalization
  • Different vocalizations for different states
  • Recognizes familiar people
  • Reciprocal social games (peek-a-boo, pat a cake)
  • Imitates familiar sounds and actions
  • Cries when parent leaves
  • Reduplicative babbling (baba, mama)
  • Attracts attention by vocalizing
  • Shakes head “no”
  • Waves “bye”
  • Indicates requests clearly
  • Coordinates actions between adults and objects

Socialization:

  • Reaches for familiar person
  • Plays social games (peek-a-boo)
  • Plays patty cake
  • Shows anxiety over separation from mother
  • Smiles at mirror image
  • Extends toy to show others
  • Explores environment
  • Shows like and dislike for certain people, objects, places

Daily Living Skills

  • Holds own bottle
  • Feeds self a cracker
  • Picks up spoon by handle

Motor:

  • Crawls around on hands and knees
  • Goes from sitting to prone
  • Lowers to sitting from standing
  • Cruises, walks around furniture or crib while holding on
  • Picks up small objects; precise thumb and finger grasp