Developmental Milestones Observation List

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The Developmental Milestones Observation List which is composed of gross motor, fine motor, talking and understanding, social skills and also the cognitive skills. Every child with ASD have skills in doing things. As reported by the Mayo Clinic (2014), each child with Autism Spectrum Disorder is likely to have a unique pattern of behavior and level of severity — from low functioning to high functioning. Bong-Bong has no problems in gross and fine motors, he can easily do that because as stated in the observation he likes and loves to do the things that is written in the observation list especially in gross and fine motor skills. On the contrary, he has difficulty in following the tasks in the talking and understanding observation, social skills

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