Milestones
Self-Care
- Dressing
- Dresses and undresses with supervision (3-5 years)
- Undresses independently and rapidly
- Needs assistance to remove over-the head shirt
- Puts on pants, sweater, or dress
- Puts on over the head shirt with minimal assistance
- Needs help with buttons, progresses to doing 3 large buttons
- Able to unbutton clothes (3 ½)
- Closes 2 of 3 front snaps
- Zips and unzips jacket once on track
- Unfastens buckle
- Puts socks on completely (3 ½)
- Laces shoe
- Knows left and right shoe (3 ½)
- Hangs clothes on a hook
- Hygiene
- Puts toothpaste on brush and wets
- Turns water faucet on and off
- Feeding
- Can feed self with little or no spilling
- Holds the fork with a fist
- Spreads with a knife
- Drinks from water fountain when turned on by adult
- Drinks from cup with one hand (15 mo.)
- Can pour from pitcher into cup if not too heavy
- Toileting
