Milestones of child development are important markers that help offer a general guideline about the age appropriate life processes.

TAKE NOTE OF ANY DEVELOPMENTAL MILSTONE NOT ACHIEVED / PERFORMED BY YOUR CHILD UP TO HIS / HER AGE CATEGORY:

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Newborn

  • Posture evaluation
  • Reflexes
  • Ability to latch on for feeding
  • Sleeping habit

4 to 6 Weeks

  • Prone position – lifts and turns head
  • Arm range of motion and mobility is increased
  • Hip range of motion is increased as time spent in high degree of flexion is reduced
  • Newborn to 4 months – empathetic with mom (cries when other babies cry)
  • 8 weeks – single vowel sounds (ah, uh)

3 to 3 1/2 Months

  • Begins bearing weight on arms when in prone position
  • Brings hands to midline, hands come together on chest in supine, may pull on clothes
  • Holds head up about 90 degrees and rotates it freely
  • Thrusts legs in prone position
  • Babbling

4 Months

  • Sits upright with some support
  • Rolls onto side from supine and prone positions
  • Increased pelvic mobility and leg pushing
  • Places hands together in space
  • Variations of usual sounds
  • Recognizes and responds to own name
  • Expresses sense of loss when primary care person not present

5 Months

  • Rolling skills increase – rolls to side and from prone to supine voluntarily
  • Takes feet to mouth
  • Adult may pull infant to standing
  • Brings hands together in space, using shoulder flexion
  • Babbling in 3 to 4 syllables

6 Months

  • Shifts weight over extended arms
  • Reaches for mom, toys, etc.
  • Uses lateral trunk flexion to roll over
  • Low back of throat sounds
  • Transitional object

7 Months

  • Crawling (“combat crawl”), scooting, dragging
  • Moves with tummy off the floor
  • Sits without assistance or support
  • Can put self in sitting position from crawling position
  • Stranger anxiety (7 to 10 months)

8 to 10 Months

  • Creeps on all fours (what we normally call “crawling”)
  • Uses furniture to pull self up into standing position
  • Sits independently
  • Can pull self to stand independently via kneeling and half kneeling
  • Da-Da/Ma-Ma (10 months)

11 to 12 Months

  • Walks with someone holding both hands as guidance
  • Cruises
  • 2 to 3 words
  • Jargon
  • Starts to explore environment

13 to 15 Months

  • Can climb stairs via creeping
  • Can stand alone
  • Can walk alone
  • Can sustain interest for 2 mins.
  • Uses 5 to 7 words consistently
  • Games of imitation and mirroring
  • Shows anger

15 to 22 Months

  • Locomotion is fun if somewhat unsteady
  • Can name body parts
  • Can follow two-part directions
  • Can kick a ball forward
  • Can throw a ball with forehand
  • Creeps backwards down stairs
  • Points to body parts
  • 10 to 20 words

22 Months to 2 1/2 Years

  • Can squat and pivot on foot
  • Can stand on one foot for one second
  • Can jump in place
  • Communicates needs with use of language
  • Can put on clothing
  • Expressive language – 50 words or more
  • Projection of feelings into other things

2 1/2 Years to 3 Years

  • Can ride a tricycle
  • Recognizes colors
  • Separates from mother easily by 3 years
  • Can give full name
  • Expresses language – 200 words or more
  • Refers to self as “I”

3 Years

  • Balances on one foot for 5 seconds
  • Climbs stairs with alternating feet
  • Buttons and unbuttons clothing
  • Responds to commands
  • Gives full name
  • Jumps with both feet
  • Feeds his/her self
  • Takes off shoes
  • Can draw circles

4 to 5 Years

  • Knows own self
  • Runs and turns without losing balance
  • Stands on one foot for 10 seconds
  • Draws a man
  • Dresses self
  • Speaks in 6-word sentences

5 to 6 Years

  • Can catch a ball
  • Skips smoothly
  • Knows right and left hand
  • Can describe favorite story
  • Can tie shoes
  • Asks the meaning of abstract words
  • Asks the meaning of symbolic words

6 to 7 Years

  • Copies forms, shapes (triangles, etc.) and prints
  • Thinking literally
  • Reads several one-syllable printed words
  • Prints own words

7 to 8 Years

  • Counts by twos and fives
  • If not reading, reason for concern
  • Simple addition is possible
  • Draws a man with details
  • Pronunciation is clear

8 to 9 Years

  • Can problem-solve and give verbal solutions

Alex was born in March 1972. At the age of 7 he started to experience frequent headaches with all the conventional symptoms of a Migraine headache. His particular headache resulted in him experiencing auras, nausea and sensitivity to light with no particular trigger to the onset of the migraine.

After years of treatments, therapies and medications, his headaches were no better and Alex continued to experience them all throughout childhood and into young adulthood. Some years the headaches would come monthly, some years every two to three months and some years weekly. His headaches were incurable, there was nothing that could alleviate the symptoms and head pain. Until he experienced cranial manual therapy, which resulted in the complete eradication of his life-long Migraine Headaches.

At the age of 16 Alex noticed a mild deformity in the right side of his ribs, a slightly lower right shoulder and the experience of constant lower back pain. Although mild, a diagnosis of Idiopathic Adolescent Scoliosis had been labeled.

At the age of 18 he was involved in a serious car accident that exacerbated his lower back pain. Throughout the years Alex had tried a multitude of conventional treatments but continued to suffer on and off with lower back pain, even throughout Chiropractic school and beyond.

In 2015 and fifteen+ years out of Chiropractic school, Dr. Kaminsky participated in his first and life changing Craniosacral Therapy seminar and he was fascinated, intrigued and hooked. It all made sense, he was immediately astute to its methods and since that first seminar, and as a result of trading sessions of Craniosacral Therapy with his colleagues, his back pain subsided and till this day has never returned.

Dr. Kaminsky decided to enhance his skill-set to better serve his patients. He began reaching out to other craniosacral therapists, cranial osteopaths, and many types of leading practitioners from various fields for advise and consultations He also enrolled in Upledger continuing education seminars with a focus on mostly hands-on manual and alternative therapies.

And, as he gained knowledge with his own health issues, he has learned to help more and more patients achieve great health results.

Dr. Alex Kaminsky is headache free and low back pain free, and has committed himself to a life of learning, teaching and treating patients. His emphasis is on the patient’s stored patterns of the body and each individual healthcare needs.