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Infant Reflexes: Rooting
Onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration: 3 months
Stimulus: Stroke the corner of the mouth, upper lip, and lower lip
Response: Movement of the tongue, mouth, and/or head to the stimulus
Relevance: Allows searching for and locating feeding source.
Infant Reflexes: Suck-swallow
Onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration: 2-5 months
Stimulus: Place examiner's index finger inside infant's mouth with head in mid-line.
Response: Strong, rhythmical sucking
Relevance: Allows ingestion of nourishment
Infant Reflexes: Traction
Onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration: 2-5 months
Stimulus: Grasp infants forearms and pull to sit
Response: Complete flexion of upper extremities
Relevance: Enhances momentary reflexive grasp
Infant Reflexes: Moro
Onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration: 4-6 months
Stimulus: Rapidly drop infant's head backward
Response: 1st phase- arm extension, abduction, hand opening. 2nd phase- arm flexion, adduction
Relevance: facilitates ability to depart from dominant flexor posture: protective response.
Infant Reflex: Plantar Grasp
Onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration: 9 months
Stimulus: Apply pressure with thumb on the infant's ball of the foot
Response: Toe flexion
Relevance: Increases tactile input to sole of foot
Infant Reflex: Galant
Onset: 32 weeks gestation
Integration: 2 months
Stimulus: Hold infant in prone suspension, gently scratch or tap alongside the spine with finger, from shoulder to buttocks.
Response: Lateral trunk flexion and wrinkling of the skin on the stimulated side
Relevance: Facilitates lateral trunk movements necessary for trunk stabilization
Infant Reflex: Asymmetric Tonic Neck
Onset: 37 weeks gestation
Integration: 4-6 months
Stimulus: fully rotate infant's head and hold for 5 seconds
Response:Extension of extremities on the face side, flexion of extremities on the skull side.
Relevance: Promotes visual hand regard
Infant Reflexes: Palmar Grasp
Onset: 37 weeks gestation
Integration: 4-6 months
Stimulus: Place examiner's finger in infant's palm
Response: finger flexion; reflexive grasp
Relevance: Increases tactile input on palm of hand
Infant Reflexes: Tonic Labyrinthine-Supine
Onset: >37 weeks gestation
Integration: 6 months
Stimulus: Place infant in supine
Response: Increased extensor tone
Relevance: Facilitates total body extensor tone
Infant Reflexes: Tonic Labyrinthine- Prone
Onset: >37 weeks gestation
Integration: 6 months
Stimulus: Place infant in prone
Response: Increased flexor tone
Relevance: Facilitates total body flexor tone
Labyrinthine/optical (head) righting
Onset: Birth to 2 months
Integration: persists
Stimulus: Hold infant suspended vertically and tilt slowly (about 45 degrees) to the side, forward, or backward.
Response: Upright positioning of the head
Relevance: Orients head in space; maintains face vertical
Infant Reflex: Landau
Onset: 3-4 months
Integration: 12-24 months
Stimulus: Hold infant in horizontal prone suspension
Response: Complete extension of head, trunk, and extremities
Relevance: Breaks up flexor dominance; facilitates prone extension
Infant Reflex: Symmetric tonic neck
Onset: 4-6 months
Integration: 8-12 months
Stimulus: Place infant in crawling position and extend the head
Response: flexion of hips and knees
Relevance: Breaks up total extensor posture; facilitates static quaduped position
Infant Reflex: Neck Righting (NOB)
Onset: 4-6 months
Integration: 5 years
Stimulus: Place infant in supine and fully turn head to one side
Response: Log rolling of entire body to maintain alignment with the head
Relevance: Maintains head/body alignment; initiates rolling (first ambulation effort)
Infant Reflex: Body righting (on body) (BOB)
Onset: 4-6 months
Integration: 5 years
Stimulus: Place infant in supine, flex one hip and knee toward the chest and hold it briefly
Response: Segmental rolling of the upper trunk to maintain alignment
Relevance: Facilitates trunk/spinal rotation
Infant Reflex:Downward Parachute (protective extension downward)
Onset: 4 months
Integration: Persists
Stimulus: Rapidly lower infant toward supporting surface while vertically suspended.
Response: Extension of the lower extremities
Relevance: Allows accurate placement of lower extremities in anticipation of a surface
Gross Motor Skills
Prone Position
0-2 months
- Turns head side to side
- Lifts head momentarily
- Bends hips with bottom in air
- Lifts head and sustains in midline
- Rotates head freely when up
- Able to bear weight on forearms
- Able to tuck chin and gaze at hands in forearm prop
- Attempts to shift weight on forearms, resulting in shoulder collapse
Gross Motor Skills
Prone Position
5-6 months
- Shifts weight on forearms and reaches forward
- Bears weight and shifts weight on extended arms
- Legs are closer together and thighs roll inward toward natural alignment
- Hips are flat on surface
- Equilibrium reactions are present
Gross Motor Skills
Prone Position
5-8 months
- Airplane posturing in prone position; chest and thighs lift off of surface
Gross Motor Skills
Prone Position
7-8 months
- Pivots in prone position
- Moves to prone position to sit
Gross Motor Skills
Prone Position
9 months
Begins to dislike prone position
Gross Motor Skills
Supine Position
0-3 months
- Head held to one side
- Able to turn head side to side
Gross Motor Skills
Supine Position
3-4 months
- Holds head in midline
- Chin is tucked and neck lengthens in back
- Legs come together
- Lower back flattens against floor
Gross Motor Skills
Supine Position
4-5 months
- Head lag is gone when pulled to a sitting position
- Hands are together in space
Gross Motor Skills
Supine Position
5-6 months
- Lifts head independently
- Brings feet to mouth
- Brings hand to feet
- Able to reach for toy with one or both hands
- Hands are predominantly open
Gross Motor Skills
Supine Position
7-8 months
- Equilibrium reactions are present
Gross Motor Skill
Rolling
3-4 Months
Rolls from prone position to side accidentally because of poor control of weight shift
- Rolls from supine position to side
Gross Motor Skill
Rolling
5-6 Months
- Rolls from prone to supine position
- Rolls from supine position to side with right and left leg performing independent movements
- Rolls from supine to prone position with right and left leg performing independent movements
Gross Motor Skill
Rolling
6-14 Months
- Rolls segmentally with roll initiated by the head, shoulder, or hips
Gross Motor Skill
Creeping
7 Months
- Crawls forward on belly
Gross Motor Skill
Creeping
7-10 Months
-Reciprocal creep
Gross Motor Skill
Creeping
10-11 Months
- Creeps on hands and feet
Gross Motor Skill
Creeping
11-12 Months
- Creeps well
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
0-3 Months (held in sitting)
- Head bobs in sitting
- Back is rounded
- Hips are apart, turned out, bent
- Head is steady
Chin tucks; able to gaze at floor
- Sits with less support
- Hips are bent and shoulders are in front of hips
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
5-6 months (supports self in sitting)
- Sits alone momentarily
- Increased extension in back
- Sits by propping forward on arms
- Wide base, legs are bent
- Periodic use of "high guard" position
- Protective responses present when falling to the front
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
5-10 months (sits alone)
- Sits alone steadily, initially with wide base of support
- Able to play with toys in a sitting position.
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
6-11 Months
- Gets to sitting position from prone
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
7-8 Months
- Equilibrium reactions are present
- - Able to rotate upper body while lower body remains stationary
- Protective responses are present when falling to the side
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
8-10 Months
- Sits well with support
- Legs are closer; full upright position, knees straight
- Increased variety of positions, including "W" sit and side sit
- Difficult fine motor tasks may prompt return to wide base of support
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
9-18 Months
- Rises from supine position by first rolling over to stomach, then pushing up into four-point position
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
10-12 Months
- Protective extension backwards, first with bent elbows then with straight elbows
- Able to move in and out of sitting position to other positions
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
11-12 Months
- Trunk control and equilibrium responses are fully developed in sitting position
- Further increase in variety of positions possible
Gross Motor Skill
Sitting
11-24 Months
- Rises from supine by first rolling to side then pushing up into sitting position.
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
0-3 Months
- When held in standing position, takes some weight on legs
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
2-3 Months
- When held in standing position, legs may give way
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
3-4 Months
- Bears some weight on legs
- Head is up in midline, no chin tuck
- Pelvis and hips are behind shoulders
- Legs are apart and turned outward
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
5-10 Months
- Stands while holding onto furniture
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
5-6 Months
- Increased capability to bear weight
- Decreased support needed; may be held by arms or hands
- Legs are still spread apart and turned outward
- Bounces in standing position
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
6-12 Months
- Pulls to standing position at furniture
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
8-9 Months
- Rotates the trunk over the lower extremities
- Lower extremities are more active in pulling to a standing position
- Pulls to a standing position by kneeling, then half kneeling
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
9-13 Months
- Pulls to standing position with legs only, no longer needs arms
- Stands alone momentarily
Gross Motor Skill
Standing
12 Months
- Equilibrium reactions are present in standing
Gross Motor Skill
Walking
8 Months
Cruises Sideways
Gross Motor Skill
Walking
8-18 Months
Walks with two hands held
Gross Motor Skill
Walking
9-10 Months
Cruises around furniture, turning slightly in intended direction
Gross Motor Skill
Walking
9-17 Months
Takes independent steps, falls easily
Gross Motor Skill
Walking
10-14 Months
Walking: stoops and recovers in play
Gross motor skill
Walking
11 Months
- Walks with one hand held
- Reaches for furniture out of reach when cruising
- Cruises in either direction, no hesitation
Gross Motor Skill
Walking
15 Months
Able to start and stop in walking
Gross Motor Skill
Walking
18 Months
- Seldom Falls
- Runs stiffly with eyes on ground
Gross Motor Skill
Jumping & Hopping
2yr
2.5+ year
3 yr
2 Year: Jumps down from step
2.5+ Year: Hops on one foot, few steps
3 Year: Jumps off floor with both feet
Gross Motor Skill
Jumping & Hopping
3-5 year
3.5-5 year
3-4 year
5 year
5-6 year
3-5 Year: Jumps over objects
3.5-5 Year: Hops on one foot
3-4 Year: Gallops, leading with one foot and transferring weight smoothly and evenly
5 Year: Hops in a straight line
5-6 Year: Skips on alternating feet, maintaining balance
Gross Motor Skill
Stair Climbing
15mo
18-24 mo
18-23 mo
2-2.5 year
15 Months: Creeps up stairs
18-24 Months: Walks up stairs while holding on; walks down stairs while holding on
18-23 Months: Creeps backward down stairs
2-2.5+ Years: Walks up stairs without support, marking time; walks down stairs without support, marking time
Gross Motor Skill
Stair Climbing
2-2.5-3 year
3-3.5 year
2-2.5-3 Years: Walks up stairs, alternating feet
3-3.5 Years: Walks down stairs, alternating feet