12-15 Months

SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL

COGNITIVE

PLAY

LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

LANGUAGE PRODUCTION

SELF-AWARENESS

  • Acts without regard for rules
  • Shows a sense of humor
  • Identifies some body parts
  • Enjoys being the center of attention

SELF CONTROL

  • Resists adult control
  • Needs and expects rituals and routines
  • Temporarily responds to "no" and "stop"

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

  • Shows affection to parents
  • Understands pointing and showing
  • Gives toy to adult upon request
  • Shares with an adult
  • Refuels emotionally through intermittent contact with parent
  • Wants to be near adults

SOCIAL PLAY

  • Enjoys imitating adult behavior.
  • Takes the lead in initiating social games
  • Engages in interactive play (e.g. rolls ball back and forth)
  • Enjoys chasing and hiding games

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

  • Finger feeds self for part of meal
  • Begins to use spoon or other utensils to feed self
  • Holds and drinks from a cup with some spilling
  • Cooperates in dressing
  • Takes off hat, socks, and shoes
  • Fusses to be changed after bowel movement
  • Has a dry diaper after nap some of the time

PROBLEM SOLVING

  • Uses non-systematic trial and error problem solving strategies
  • Discovers novel behavior needed to obtain a desired goal (e.g. dumps pellet from bottle)
  • Begins smiles of mastery upon attaining self-generated goal
  • Demonstrates increased awareness of dissonance
  • Demonstrates tool use after demonstration
  • Demonstrates capacity for social tool use (e.g. shows other what to do)
  • Explores cabinets and drawers

CAUSALITY

  • Attempts to activate a simple mechanisms
  • Uses adults as a means (e.g. brings windup toy to adult)
  • Uses purposeful gestures to make wants understood

CLASSIFICATION

  • Picks up like objects in each hand spontaneously
  • Relates visual configurations (e.g. relates arms to shirt)
  • Selects object misplaced in an array of like objects

OBJECT PERMANANCE

  • Enjoys losing and finding play
  • Finds object removed from a container
  • Retrieves object by detouring around furniture
  • Finds object hidden under multiple covers

MEMORY

  • Maintains goal without being distracted (e.g. pulls string to obtain toy out of reach)

IMITATION

  • Imitates novel movements (e.g. bends and straightens finger)
  • Imitates unfamiliar action with an object (e.g. blows a ping pong ball)

EVENT REPRESENTATION

  • Recognizes use of familiar objects
  • Restricts most acts with objects to own body (e.g, sits on doll chair)
  • Mimics ongoing domestic activities
  • Begins to direct functional acts to replicas
  • Points out familiar facial features on self and adults
  • Uses words as symbols
  • Describes line and rotational courses with his own body and in miniatuized space (e.g., runs in a circle and moves car in a circle
  • Pats pictures in books

ACTIONS

  • Interacts with multi-dimensional objects using a variety of schemes
  • Directs functional objects first to self, then to adult, then to a doll

OBJECTS

  • Clearly inspects and investigates objects first, then accords appropriate uses
  • Pretends using real props

SPATIAL

  • Orients personal accessories roughly (e.g. brings sunglasses toward head)
  • Fills container with small objects
  • Stacks objects.

AUDITORY PROCESSING

  • Displays awareness of speaker's emotional tone
  • Listens to adult naming pictures in a book

VOCABULARY/CONCEPTS

  • Begins to pat named picture in a book
  • Identifies at least two body parts
  • Recognizes or identifies common objects and pictures as they are named

COMMANDS

  • Retrieves a familiar item from another room upon request
  • Chooses an object from a group of two objects
  • Follows routine one part commands given with gestures

QUESTIONS

  • Responds to 'where' question forms by indicating location
  • Begins to respond to simple 'what' question forms

VOCALIZATION/PHONOLOGY

  • Uses at least 18 different speech sounds
  • Produces true words in jargon utterances
  • Omits final consonants and some initial consonants
  • Has a repertoire of consonants including w,h,p,b,m,n,t,d,j,k,g,l

INTENTION/DISCOURSE

  • Requests actions/objects/information via vocalizations and gestures
  • Refuses by saying "no"
  • Uses exclamatory expressions (e.g. uhoh)
  • Demonstrates sense of humor
  • Greets when given verbal cues
  • Initiates topic using glances and vocalizations
  • Begins to maintain play and vocal interactions

IMITATION

  • Imitates vocal intonation patterns of others
  • Imitates three animal sounds
  • Imitates simple novel behaviors
  • Imitates familiar words

SEMANTICS

  • Uses single word sentences
  • Uses five or more words consistently
  • Begins to label objects
  • Begins to label specific body parts
  • Produces semantic functions such as: existence (e.g. ball) disappearance (e.g. all gone) rejection (e.g. no)

12-15 Months

ORAL-MOTOR/FEEDING

GROSS MOTOR

FINE MOTOR

VISION/HEARING

HEALTH/PHYSICAL GROWTH

PRIMARY FOOD TYPE

  • Accepts a variety of liquid and food consistencies and textures

12-15 MONTHS

  • Uses coordinated sucking pattern to cup drink
  • Uses three suck-swallow sequences especially when thirsty
  • Protrudes tongue under cup once in awhile
  • Transfers food center to side with tongue when chewing with intermittent forward-backward tongue movements
  • Closes lips when swallowing liquid from a cup
  • Clears the spoon with upper lip movements with lower lip drawing in with food on it
  • Chews with active lip movement
  • Swallows with lips closed
  • Uses a controlled sustained bite on a soft texture
  • Uses suck or phasic bite on hard textures some of the time
  • Uses up-down, forward-backward jaw movements some of the time

12 MONTHS

  • Moves on hands and feet (e.g. bear walking)
  • Takes a few steps independently

13 MONTHS

  • Walks with feet widely spaced and arms placed mid to high guard
  • Reverts to creeping if speed or efficiency is desired
  • Squats in play, maintaining position for several minutes
  • Climbs into adult chair and sits down

14 MONTHS

  • Crawls upstairs
  • Begins to throw a ball underhand
  • Stoops and recovers

12 MONTHS

  • Exhibits fine pincer grasp
  • Demonstrates palmar-supinated (e.g. fist grasp pattern for crayons and pencils
  • Attempts to stack two cubes
  • Begins to cross midline

13 MONTHS

  • Builds a tower of two cubes
  • Exhibits controlled release into a small container or hand
  • Picks up and holds two objects in one hand
  • Inserts a round block into a formboard spontaneously or after a request or gesture.

14 MONTHS

  • Demonstrates mature prehension patterns intermittently
    -fine pincer for small objects
    - three jaw chuck for cylinarical objects
    - palmar-supinated for writing instruments

VISION

  • Visual Discrimination
  • Imitates several gestures
  • Points to or shows objects
  • Helps turn pages of a book
  • Pats pictures
  • Looks at pictures while story is read

VISUAL MOTOR INTEGRATION

  • Marks with crayon in response to demonstration
  • Eye/hand coordination
    -Stacks two cubes
    -Nests two boxes

HEARING

  • Localizes by turning head in any direction to find an interesting sound or voice
  • Responds to name, even when spoken softly
  • Reaches toward a sound source after it has stopped

12 MONTHS

Weight:
    Girls -17-1/4 - 24-3/4 lbs
    Boys -18-1/2 - 26-1/2 lbs
Length:
    Girls - 27-1/2 - 31-1/4 in
    Boys - 28-1/4- 32 in
Head Circumference:
    Girls - 43.5 - 47.6 cm
    Boys - 44.8 - 49.3 cm
Nutrition:
  • Shows decreased appetite
  • Averages three breast/formula feedings per day at intervals of no more than five hours
  • Reduces breast milk/formula intake to 20-24 ounces daily
  • Begins cow's milk at 12 months
  • Accepts a variety of liquids/foods, consistency and textures
  • Takes solids with all meals (ground, mashed table foods, some chunky foods)
  • Has stomach capacity for eight ounces of liquid and one cup of solids
  • Needs about 1000 calories per day
Health:
  • Triples birth weight
  • Increases birth length by almost 50%
  • Increases head circumference by approximately 12 cm since birth
  • Demonstrates closed anterior fontanel between twelve to eighteen months
  • Sleeps 13 3/4 hours per 24 hour period, including one to two naps
  • Has six to eight teeth with beginning signs of first upper molar eruption (twelve to nineteen months) with over molar eruption following (fourteen to eighteen months)
  • Continues immunizations per recommended guidelines

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Family Enrichment Program
ECHO Joint Agreement
Park Forest, IL