Peds cog/fine motor skills

Cognition and fine motor skills of 13-18 months

-imitates patty cake and other children

• stranger anxiety

• Uses expressive jargon

• Builds cube tower (2 cubes… not really a tower in my opinion)

• 10-15 words & pointing

• Begins to help w dressing

• Uses a cup

• Scribbles and marks paper w crayon

Cognition and fine motor skills of a 18-24 month old

folds paper

Stacks up to 6 cubes!

Strings large beads

50-200 word vocabulary

ID pictures when named

Links words “momma go”

Shows empathy

2 year old fine motor and cognition

turns nobs/caps

Sorts shapes and colors

IDs MULTIPLE body parts

Refines grasp patterns

Imitates lines on paper

Language explosion

• between ages 2-3 vocab increases to 300 words and children can understand up to 900 words

• Become defiant and tantrums when don’t get their way

Terrible 2’s

3-4 year old fine motor and cognition

controls crayons more effectively

Copies shapes

Cuts with child scissors

Matches colors

May begin to show hand preference

Begins school

 Gains independence from parents

Starts taking responsibility for dressing tasks

 Dons socks & shoes

Potty training begins

5-8 years old fine motor and cognition

Writes letters, numbers clearly

Mature grasp pattern

Dynamic tripod grasp

Tie shoes

Manages zippers and buttons

Hand dominance established by age 5

Attends full day school

learns to read

Begins math and phonics

Play games that require turn taking and multi-directions

9-13 years old social and cognition

Performing higher level thinking

Complex problem solving skills

Development of abstract thought

Age of great independence from family

Puberty

Time of much change both physically and

psychologically

Preparing for highschool

Fine motor skills of a 6 month old

Baby can now more actively manipulate objects

 Holds bottle independently with 2 hands

 Transfers objects between 2 hands

 Bangs objects together

 Rakes small objects with fingers

 Early palmar grasp develops

Social and language skills between the ages of 4-5 months

laughs

Vocalizes and babbles

Smiles at themselves in the mirror

Turns head towards voice

vision and fine motor skills of a 4 month old

Can visually track an object without turning the head and can downwardly gaze without moving the head

Neck righting is still present (when head rotates and the body follows)

Reaches for toys in midline with pronation - visual convergence

Can begin to hold objects purposefully

• 1 handed palmar grasp

3 month old Fine motor and vision

Palmar grasp reflex is no long elicited by traction

however will be elicited with pressure on radial side

 Infants can hold a rattle but still do not know how to

play with it

 Will bring most toys directly to mouth to explore

 Can use 2 handed palmar grasp for larger objects

 Vision is now more functional in prone due to the

improved head lifting

Vision / social skills/ language between 2-3 months

Vision becomes more functional

• Binocular vision acquired

• Watches own hands in space

• Can see farther distances

Smiles purposefully in response to faces or voices

Coos

Cries to get attention

Vocalizes to express displeasure

Vision and fine motor / feeding in a 2 month old

Head control affects ocular control- which is very important at this

age

 Hands to mouth often seen

 Swipes at toys while supine

 Can grasp a rattle but will not attend to it

 Grasp reflex can still be facilitated by deep pressure

 When wrists flexes fingers extend

 Continues to feed from bottle or breast