I don’t know about you but it makes me crazy that it is hard to find a developmental chart for kids with Down syndrome, and for “regular” kids you can find them anywhere! Online, books, really anywhere! But for Down syndrome kids it is another story… Even if you ask the Doctors or teachers, they like to say that with Down syndrome kids each case is completely different, they don’t know when they will learn a new skill, bla, bla, bla. The point is that we all know that, even the regular kids, meet expectations in their own times; but is nice to have at least an idea of what to expect.
0 – 2 months
Smiling
3 – 5 months
Prone: turns head to both sides
Neck righting
Upright: head bobs but stays erect
Prone: optical righting
Prone: raises and maintains head at 45 degrees
React to the door bell or estranges sounds
Vocalize; make a sound different that crying
Smile in answer to your smile
6 – 12 months
Put hands together
Fallow an object up and down, side to side
Laugh
Play with a rattle
Fallow voices
Get upset if you take a toy away
Prone: head and chest are raised to 90 degrees with forearm support
Roll from stomach to back
Rolls from back to stomach
Hand to foot play
Pivots in stomach-lying 360 degrees
Sits
Moves a toy from one hand to another
13 – 15 months
Clap hands
Finger feeding
Talk 2 or 3 words
Try to get a toy out of her reach
Make the bye-bye sign
Moves from sitting to stomach lying by moving to the side
Assumes quadruped
Belly crawls
Pulls to kneel from sitting using a surface with an edge
Pulls to stand from sitting on the floor
16 – 18 months
Take a small object from the floor
Play peek a boo
Understand the word “no” but not always obey
Imitate
Baby talks (like if she is talking in foreign language that doesn’t exist)
Moves from sitting to quadruped by moving to the side
Moves from quadruped to sitting
Pulls to kneel from quadruped using a surface with an edge
Moves from stomach-lying to sitting by moving to the side
Creeps in quadruped (crawls)
Pulls to stand from quadruped
Pulls to stand through half kneel
Moves from standing to sitting on the floor with knees bent
Cruises in one direction
19 – 22 months
Using spoon/fork
Play with a ball with someone else
Indicate what she wants in a different way than crying
Bear walking
Steps 10 feet with two hand support
Climbs onto the sofa with the seat cushion removed
Stands without support for 10 seconds
Walks 10 feet with a push toy
Climbs off the sofa with the seat cushion in place
23 – 26 months
Talking words
Drink from a sippy cup
Fallow simple orders
Climbs up a flight stairs
Takes 2 independent steps
Walks 10 feet with one-hand support
27 – 34 months
Talking sentences
Climbs down a flight of stairs
Walks 15 feet without hand support
35 – 39 months
Walks down a 4-inch curb without hand support
Walks up a 4-inch curb without support
Walks (fast walk) 100 feet in less than 25 seconds with hand support
Walks across on 8-ft long, 7-in wide balance beam without hand support
Walks up stairs marking time holding the rail
40 – 49 months
Start toilet training
Undressing
Walks down stairs marking time holding the rail
Jumps
Walks up an 8-in curb without hand support
50 – 81 months
Putting clothes on
Runs 100 feet in less that 25 seconds
Walks up stairs holding the rail alternating feet
Rides tricycle 15 feet
Walks across an 8-ft long, 4-in wide balance beam without hand support
Walks down stairs holding the rail alternating feet
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