Hummingbird Pediatric Therapies

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  • Our Team
  • Therapies Offered
    • Speech Language Therapy
    • Occupational Therapy
    • Physical Therapy
    • Feeding Therapy
    • Counseling
    • Aquatic Therapy
    • Hippotherapy
    • Therapeutic Life Skills Program
    • Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI)
    • Little Chefs Cooking Class
    • Social Groups
    • Parent Support Group
    • NICU Aftercare Clinic
    • Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy
    • Infant Breast & Bottle Feeding Therapy
    • Intensive Therapy
    • Toe Walking
    • Reflex Integration
    • Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTs)
    • Serial Casting
    • Handwriting
    • Interactive Metronome
    • Therapeutic Listening
    • DIR Floortime
  • Hummingbird Academy
    • Academy FAQ
  • Milestones
    • Developmental
    • Speech & Language
    • Social/Emotional
    • Fine Motor
    • Gross Motor
    • Feeding
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Developmental Milestones

Birth to 3 months
  • Follows moving toys or faces with their eyes
  • Able to lift or raise head from surface when lying on tummy
  • Responds to loud noises
  • Makes sounds like cooing, gurgling, sighing, and grunting
  • Cries differently for different needs
  • Reaches or grasps toys, rattles, or hair

3 Months to 6 Months
  • Turns head and moves eyes to voices or sounds
  • Rolls over front-to-back and back-to-front
  • Babbles, squeals, and makes speech like sounds such as “p”, “b”, and “m”
  • Pays attention to music, notices toys that make sounds
  • Holds toys, puts toys in mouth, and can help hold the bottle during feedings

6 Months to 9 Months
  • Moves toys from one hand to the other hand
  • Can sit unassisted for five minutes
  • Copies sounds or gestures
  • Responds to name
  • Likes to play peek-a-boo and pat-a-cake
  • Starts to crawl by pulling self up and kicking legs

9 Months to 12 Months
  • Recognizes common words (cup, juice, shoe)
  • Can say one or two words (bye-bye, mama, dada)Grabs small objects with thumb and index finger
  • Removes socks and cooperates with dressing activities
  • Able to crawl, pull up on furniture, and take some steps without assistance
  • Responds to simple requests (come here)
  • Can drink from a cup with help

12 Months to 24 Months
  • Uses some 2-word questions (Where kitty?, Go bye-bye?, What’s that?)
  • Can point to some body parts when asked, points to pictures in a book when named
  • Follows simple commands (roll the ball, kiss the baby, where’s your shoe?)
  • Walks alone without assistance, can keep balance when stepping off objects
  • Says “no” often
  • Likes to pretend play
  • Can throw a small ball, scribbles on paper, and uses spoon with some success

2 Years to 3 Years
  • Walking, jumping with both feet, and better at running
  • Able to kick and throw a ball
  • Able to walk up and down steps with alternate feet while holding someone’s hand
  • Uses 2-3 word sentences to talk about or ask for things
  • Speech is understood by familiar listeners most of the time
  • Can follow 2 step direction (Get the book and put it on the table)
  • Answers simple questions
  • Repeats simple rhymes and songs
  • Puts their clothes on by themselves (3 yrs.)

3 Years to 5 Years
  • Hears you when you call from another room
  • Understands simple questions (who, what, where, why)
  • Talks about activities at school or at friends’ homes
  • Uses sentences that have 4 or more words
  • Talks easily without repeating sounds and outside people understand
  • Able to cut paper into 2 pieces, traces lines, can unbutton buttons
  • Can pedal and steer tricycle
  • Bathes self (4-5 yrs.)

5 Years and Up
  • Can pay attention to short story and answer question about it
  • Hears and understands most of what is said at home and at school
  • Uses sentences that give more detail (I like to read my books)
  • Tells stories and sticks to topic
  • Communicates easily with other children and adults
  • Learning to ride a two-wheeled bicycle
  • Able to skip, run, gallop, and stop
  • Able to engage in tumbling, swimming, swinging, and ball games
  • Has friends and a social group at school, neighborhood, outside activities
  • Chooses own clothing, can make a sandwich, can assist with household chores

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