From 8 to 12 months of age, most babies become increasingly mobile. It is important that he have a safe space in order to learn to move and explore.
Additional milestones include:
MOVEMENT MILESTONES
- Crawls on hands and knees with belly off of floor
- Moves between sitting and crawling positions
- Pulls self to stand
- Walks while holding onto furniture
FINGER SKILLS
- Uses a pincer grasp
- Bangs 2 blocks together
- Fills and pours objects from container
- Lets go of objects voluntarily
- Finger feeds
LANGUAGE/SOCIAL SKILLS
- Responds to “no” and simple verbal commands
- Uses simple gestures such as shaking head “No”
- Tries to imitate words
- Uses simple words such as “mama”, “dada” or “uh-oh”
- Imitates play
- Cries when caregiver leaves
- Shows specific preferences to specific toys
COGNITIVE SKILLS
- Explores objects in many different ways (shaking, banging, dropping, etc)
- Finds hidden objects easily
- Looks at correct picture when image is named
- Begins to use objects correctly (talk on phone, drink from cup, brush hair, etc)