Instructional and Behavioral Support: Developmental Milestones
Instructional and Behavioral Support: Developmental Milestones
Developmental milestones are checkpoints in a child’s progress, and they decide what the average child can do at a particular age. Knowing developmental milestones for different ages helps teachers and parents understand normal child development, and it helps find any potential problems with delayed development. There are four categories of developmental milestones including physical milestones, cognitive milestones, social milestones and communication milestones (Cherry, 2015).
Physical milestones include both large motor skills and fine motor skills. Large motor skills are the first developed by young children, and they include sitting, crawling, standing and
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