This developmental chart lists some skills typical of a child's development from infancy through 5 years. Children may vary in their development, and, of course, the best gift you can give a child at any age is your love and affection. If you have any questions concerning your child's development, contact your pediatrician and/or ask about our early intervention program.

• Listen to musical sounds
• Stare at movement and light
• Be held and rocked
• Reach/feel with open hands

• Soft musical toys/rattles
• Lamps throwing light patterns
• Your arms, singing, smile

• Shake, feel and bang things
• Sit with support

• Crib gym
• Cups, spoons and pot lids
• High chair suction toys
  
  

• Rollover and pivot on stomach
• Throw, wave and bang toys ·
• Gum objects

Give your baby:

• Bathtub toys
• Teether and gumming toys
• Space to roll around

• Play pat-a-cake
• Pull up and get back down
• Place things where they're wanted

Give your baby:

• Motion toys
• Baking tins and clothes pins
• Nestled plastic cups

• Use one or two words
• Be hugged
• Try feeding themselves

Give your baby:

• Lots of conversation
• Personal dish, cup and spoon
• You on the floor

• Get into everything
• Identify parts of themselves
• Fetch and carry
• Turn pages

Give your baby:

• A childproof house
• A shape sorting box
• A toy telephone
• Picture books

• Help with housework
• Kick a large ball
• Play on riding toys

Give your toddler:

• Large balls and push toys
• Tricycle or big wheel
• Shelves to put things away

• Put clothing on
• Work with their fingers
• Sing songs and repeat rhymes

Give your child:

• Big crayons and paper
• Tape player or record player
• Construction sets

• Cut with rounded scissors
• Play games with other children
• Play with sand and water

Give your child:

• More responsibility
• Things to cut and paste
• Backyard pool or sandbox

• Play ball
• Repeat nursery rhymes
• Dress themselves
• Sing songs

Give your child:

• Balls of different sizes
• Time to dress himself