Toddler Program (Ages 1 to 3 years)
Emotional Development:
- Feed self
- Play alone
- Express affection to others
- Briefly delay immediate needs and wants
- Use imagination in play
- Assert independence, sometimes
- Help with simple chores
- Be cooperative during dressing (e.g. coat)
- Attend to a task for a brief time (e.g. 2-4 minutes)
- Show interest in toileting
- Aware of others need
Social Development & Living:
- Parallel play with others
- Imitate activities and actions
- Share with others occasionally
- Assist others with simple tasks, sometimes
- Participate in a small group for periods of time
- Initiate social responses with people
Physical Development: (Gross motor)
- Bounce while sitting/standing
- Kneel
- Pull self to a standing position
- Stand alone
- Creep
- Walk independently
- Kick
- Twist body March
- Throw a ball
- Jump
- Push/pull toys
- Run
- Pick up objects from the floor
Cognitive Development:
- Respond to stimulus
- Imitate behaviors/sounds
- Explore own environment
- Play with objects and toys
- Point to three body parts (e.g. hair, nose, eyes, etc.)
- Recognize own name
- Respond to simple requests/directions
- Name three objects (e.g. verbally)
- Match and pattern
- Remember some previous information
Fine Motor:
- Grasp
- Shake
- Point
- Drop
- Squeeze/bang/pound
- Pull
- Attempt to stack/build
- Stir
- Empty/fill
- Pour
- Scribble
- Turn Pages
- Use a spoon
- Paint
- Dumping/picking up
Expressive skills:
- Babble and chatter
- Repeat sounds
- Repeat simple words
- Sometimes participate in simple songs and finger plays
- Imitate single word communications.
Language: (Receptive skills)
- Respond to sounds and locate their direction
- Respond to own name
- Identify simple sounds
- Listen to short stories/look at simple picture books
- Music and songs