Pregnancy
Your Child's Development: 9-18 Months
Motor Patterns
At 9-10 months
- Walking on own or by holding onto furniture
- Squatting while playing
- Throwing a ball in a forward direction
- Feeding self finger foods
- Stacking two cube-shaped blocks
- Organizing one-step motor-planning sequence, such as pushing, catching, or throwing a ball
- Planning motor patterns involving two or more steps, like throwing a ball up in the air and trying to catch it
- Trying to imitate scribbling, or scribbling on her own
- Holding crayon or pencil adaptively (gripping it in a way that makes scribbling possible)
- Putting items in a cup, or toys in a box
- Building a tower with two or three blocks
- Putting pegs in a pegboard, or a round block in a shape-sorter box's round hole
- Removing socks
At 9-10 months
- Exploring different foods; tolerating different textures with hands and mouth
- Climbing and exploring off the floor, on couches or table tops
- Showing no particular sensitivity to bright lights
- Showing no particular sensitivity to loud noises, such as vacuum cleaners
- Enjoying or tolerating various types of touch, such as cuddling, roughhousing, different types of clothing material, tooth and hair brushing
- Tolerating loud sounds
- Tolerating bright lights
- Tolerating and finding comfort in moving through space
At 9-10 months
- Understanding simple words like "shoe" or "kiss"
- Using sounds or a few words for specific objects
- Jabbering
- Comprehending some simple questions, carrying out simple directions ("Roll the ball here.")
- Imitating simple words
- Using words to make needs known ("Up!"; "Kiss!")
By 9-10 months
- Focusing and paying attention while playing with you or alone for five or more minutes
- Copying simple gestures like "bye-bye" hand wave and "no-no" head shake
- Finding a toy under a caregiver's hand
- Trying to imitate fine motor tasks like a scribble
- Exploring how toys work and figuring out simple relationships (pulling a string to make a sound)
- Using a variety of sounds interactively
- Using objects functionally while playing with you (combing hair with a toy comb, vocalizing while holding a toy telephone)
- Searching for a desired toy or hidden object in more than one place
- Playing with you or alone, in a focused manner, for 15 or more minutes
- Imitating behaviors just seen, or seen a few minutes earlier
- Recognizing familiar faces in family pictures
- Using a stick or other tool to capture another object
- Using long sound sequences and some words purposefully in interaction with you
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Copyright © 1999 by Stanley I. Greenspan. Excerpted from Building Healthy Minds: The Six Experiences That Create Intelligence And Emotional Growth In Babies And Young Children with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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