Key Milestones for Tracking Your Child’s Growth
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For many parents, speech delay is a real and growing concern. In the US alone, around 5% of children aged between 3-10 years old experience some degree of speech and language. Tracking a child’s speech development is crucial in ensuring that children and their families receive help in supporting their child’s speech development and overcoming, where possible, any delay.
There are many developmental milestones a baby will reach in the first few years of their life. These skills will cover all areas of their development, from their gross motor and physical skills to their emotional, social, and cognitive development, to their speech, language, and comprehension skills.
There are many reasons why a baby does not walk according to set developmental milestones. Generally, babies may start walking anywhere between the ages of 9-15 months, but in some instances, some babies walk earlier, and some babies walk later than this range.
Activities involving gross motor skills include crawling, walking, running, throwing, kicking, and lifting – basically any activity that requires a whole-body movement. Gross motor milestones refer to the gross motor skills and activities a child should perform at or by a certain age. Understanding these milestones allows parents and caregivers to track their child’s growth and development and identify if at any point or stage there is a delay, issues, or concern with their child’s physical development. Most parents, at any given time, during their infant’s development, express some concern about their child’s ability to sit unaided, crawl and walk independently.
Tracking a child’s speech and language development milestones is important in helping parents understand their child’s overall development, and allows them to identify when there may be a delay, and in turn when this delay might signal or indicate a bigger problem.
Developmental milestones are a series of tasks, behaviors, and skills that an infant or child should be able to perform by a certain age. Some of the most significant developmental milestones include smiling, waving, crawling, walking, and speaking.