Appropriate Gross Motor Skills

Dear Parents,

Do you ever wonder if your child is demonstrating the gross motor skills they are expected to be performing at their age? Listed below are a few gross motor skills and the typical ages associated with them. If you feel your child isn’t keeping up with their peers in any of these categories, it may be a good idea to schedule a screening with the birth to three center in your community or with your pediatrician.

0-1 Months

Random arm and leg movements (both sides) while lying on their back1
Wroking to turn head to side while lying on their stomach?2

2-3 Months

Lifting head off the floor when lying on their stomach1
Beginning to push up onto forearms when lying on their stomach1

4-5 Months

Rolls from stomach to back1,2
Hands1 and feet2 to mouth
Pushes up with straight elbows when lying on their stomach2
Head control when pulled to sitting from lying on back1,2

6-8 Months

Rolls stomach to back and back to stomach1,2
Crawling begins1
Sits independently1,2
Starting to pull up to stand2
Bouncing in standing1

9-10 Months

Crawling mastered1,2
Moves into and out of sitting1
Pulls up to standing1
Lowers to floor from standing2
Cruises along furniture2

11-12 Months

Cruises along furniture1
Begins walking on own1,2

References

1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Developmental Milestones. http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/. Last Reviewed and Last Updated April 21, 2015. Accessed August 2, 2015.

2 Tecklin J. Pediatric Physical Therapy. Fourth Edition. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer business; 2008.

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