The following developmental milestone charts offer information on children from birth to five years of age in a combination of areas including: Expressive and Receptive Language, Cognition, Oral Motor, Feeding and Speech Development, as well as Social/Emotional and Physical Development. They offer insight into the stages that most children develop and should act as a guideline.

• Hearing/Understanding and Talking Milestones
• Cognition, Language, Social/Emotional, and Physical Milestones
  • 0–6 Months
  • 6–12 Months
  • 12–18 Months
  • 18–24 Months
  • 2–3 Years
  • 4–5 Years
  • 0–5 Years (Complete)

• Oral-Motor, Feeding, and Speech Development
• Early Developmental Milestones - A tool for Observing & Measuring a Child's Developmental Development by Jean Scott, Ph.D
  

  Click here for the Entire Book or use the links below for the individual areas.

  • Area 1: Physical Development
  • Area 2: Language
  • Area 3: Knowledge
  • Area 4: Social - Emotional
  • Area 5: Sensory Input
  • Area 6: Reasoning Abilities
• Communication Milestones by Janet R. Lanza, Lynn K. Flahive

"The most intensive period of speech and language development for humans is during the first three years of life, a period when the brain is developing and maturing."
- NIH (National Institute for Health)