Articles and Advice: Your Toddler 12-24 Months
Milestone Chart: 19 to 24 Months
What to expect from your toddler at this stage.
| Child's Age | Mastered Skills (most children can do) |
Emerging Skills (half of children can do) |
Advanced Skills (a few children can do) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 months | Can use a spoon and fork | Half of speech may be understandable | Can wash and dry hands and brush teeth with help |
| Can run | Recognizes when something is wrong (calling a dog a cat) |
Can point to picture of cat or dog when you say the word | |
| Can throw a ball underarm | May know when she needs to urinate | ||
| 20 months | Will pretend to feed a doll | Learns words at a rate of ten or more a day | May start exploring genitals |
| Can take off own clothes with help | Can walk up (but probably not down) stairs |
Draws straighter lines | |
| Will throw away an object such as rubbish, in imitation | Searches for hidden objects | Names several body parts | |
| 21 months | Can walk up steps | Can throw a ball overarm | Can name cat or dog when you show a picture |
| Enjoys helping around the house | Can kick a ball | Can make short sentences (Me go) |
|
| Can set simple goals (e.g. deciding to put a toy in a certain place) |
Can make building brick towers | Can walk down stairs | |
| 22 months | Can kick a ball forward | Can do simple puzzles | Can put on clothing |
| Follows two-step requests (get your doll and bring it here) |
Can draw a straight line | Might be ready for a big bed | |
| Imitates others' behaviour | Can identify several body parts | Understands opposites (tall and short) |
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| 23 months | Can make a tower of four bricks | Can make two- or three-word sentences | Can walk down stairs |
| Can name a simple picture in a book | Can sing simple tunes | Talks about self (likes, dislikes) |
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| Can use 50 single words | Takes more of an interest in playing with other children | Asks "Why?" | |
| 24 months | Can name at least six body parts on a doll | Starts talking about self | Begins to understand abstract concepts like sooner and later |
| Half of speech is understandable | Can arrange things in categories | Becomes attuned to gender differences | |
| Can make short sentences | Can walk down stairs | Learns to jump |
Reference:
www.babycenter.ca
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