Most children at 3 months
• Turn their head towards bright colors and lights • Move both eyes in the same direction • Recognize bottle or breast • React to sudden sounds or voices • Make cooing sounds • Make fists with both hands • Grasp toys or hair • Wiggle and kick with arms and legs • Lift head and chest when on stomach • Begin to develop a social smile and to smile at the sound of your voice • Child watches your face intently

Most children at 6 months
• Follow moving objects with their eyes • Turn towards the source of normal sound • Reach for objects and pick them up • Switch toys from one hand to the other • Play with their toes • Help hold the bottle during feeding • Recognize familiar faces • Babble

Most children at 12 months
• Sit without support • Pull to a standing position • Crawl • Drink from a cup • Play peek-a-boo and patty cake • Wave bye-bye • Hold out their arms and legs while being dressed • Put objects in a container • Stack two blocks • Know five or six words

Most children at 18 months
• Like to pull, push and dump things • Follow simple directions e.g. "bring the ball" • Pull off shoes, socks and mittens • Like to look at pictures • Feed themselves • Make marks on paper with crayons • Walk without help • Step off a low object and keep balance

Most children at 24 months
• Use two to three word sentences • Say names of toys • Recognize familiar pictures • Carry something while walking • Feed themselves with a spoon • Play independently • Turn two to three pages at a time • Like to imitate their parent • Identify hair, eyes, ears, and nose by pointing • Build a tower of four blocks • Show affection

Most children at 36 months
• Walk up steps alternating feet • Ride a tricycle • Put on their shoes • Open door • Turn one page at a time • Play with other children for a few minutes • Repeat common rhymes • Use three to five word sentences • Name at least one color correctly • Are toilet trained

Preschool

Delay in speech development; difficulty articulating or pronouncing words.

Slow vocabulary development; using the wrong word

Difficulty rhyming words

Delay in learning numbers, alphabet, weekdays, colors, shapes

Difficulty following directions, learning routines

Awkward when running, jumping, skipping

Difficulty controlling pencil, crayons, scissors

Difficulty buttoning, zipping, tying

Trouble interacting socially with peers

Grades K-4

Difficulty connecting letters and sounds to decode words

Difficulty reading familiar, well-practiced words

Difficulty understanding or remembering what is read

Difficulty writing down thoughts, including problems with spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, richness of ideas and organization of thoughts

Poor spelling

Reversing or transposing letters or numbers

Difficulty with fine motor coordination, resulting in poor handwriting

Unstable pencil grip

Difficulty understanding what is said or expressed

Remembering facts slowly

Grades 5-8

Continued difficulty with grade-level reading comprehension, written language or math skills

Avoids reading, writing, math or other specific skills

Difficulty organizing space (bedroom, locker, etc.), material (loses or misplaces paper, assignments, etc.) or thoughts when writing or speaking

Difficulty planning time and developing strategies to complete assignments on time

Difficulty understanding discussions or expressing thoughts when speaking

Difficulty making friends

Grades 9-Adult

Continued spelling errors; frequently spells the same word differently in a single document

Avoids reading, writing, math or other specific skills

Trouble with open-ended questions on tests

Weak memory skills

Difficulty adjusting to new settings

Works slowly

Poor grasp of abstract concepts

Pays too little or too much attention to details

Misreads information