Your Child at 24 Months
How your child socializes, plays, learns, and communicates provide important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are age-specific tasks and behaviors.
Use this Developmental Checklist to track your child’s progress.
Contact Honu Intervention with any questions or concerns about your developing child. You can also download this checklist here.
Physical
Walks into a ball
Climbs up and down furniture without assistance
Walks up and down stairs using the wall or railing for support
Kicks a ball
Begins to run
Turns over containers to pour out contents
Builds a tower of five blocks
Self-Care
Begins to wash hands with help
Drinks from a straw
Feeds self with a utensil
Begins to show bladder and bowel control
Tries to complete tasks on their own (e.g., dressing, undressing, brushing teeth, etc.)
Communication
Points to pictures or objects when named
Recognizes names of familiar people, objects, and body parts
Uses 2 to 4 word sentences
Names items in a book
Follows two-step related instructions
Social
Copies others
Notices and gets excited when other children are present
Exercises defiance
Plays next to other children, but is beginning to include peers in chase games
Cognitive
Begins to match colors and shapes
Begins to engage in make-believe play
Finishes sentences or rhymes in books or songs
Finds objects hidden under two or three covers
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Doesn’t use two-word phrases (ex. Eat cookie)
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Doesn’t imitate actions or words
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Doesn’t follow simple directions
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Loses skills once had
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Doesn’t walk steadily
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Doesn’t make eye contact
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Doesn’t respond to name
Concerned about "red-flag" behaviors? Take this Developmental Red-Flags Questionnaire and receive professional feedback.
