Developmental Milestones Chart : 18 Months

Hearing/Speech and Language

Receptive Ability:

  • Follows 1 step command without gesture

Expressive Ability:

  • Says ~10 single words with meaning

  • 🚩 Says less than 5 single words

Socio-Emotional Skills

  • Plays side-by-side with other children without interaction

  • Plays with toys/objects eg rolling a ball

  • Eats with a spoon, drinks from a cup

  • 🚩 Cannot point

  • 🚩 Cannot pay attention to something together with another person

  • 🚩 Does not share things with others

Gross Motor Skills

  • Walks on his/her own

  • Bends head/body downward and forwards (stoops) and stands back up

  • Walks up stairs with one hand held

  • 🚩 Not walking on his/her own

Fine Motor Skills

  • Scribbles

  • Builds a tower with 3 blocks