CDC Learn the Signs. Act Early. — Developmental Milestones

United States · US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2023

The US public-health milestone checklist, age-banded from birth through five years.

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About CDC Learn the Signs. Act Early. — Developmental Milestones

What are the CDC milestones?

“Learn the Signs. Act Early.” is the developmental milestone programme run by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It gives families a plain checklist of what most children do by a set of age checkpoints — from two months through five years — so a parent can notice early if development needs a closer look.

How it is structured

Items are grouped into four areas — Social-Emotional, Language-Communication, Cognitive, and Movement-Physical. Each milestone is tied to an age checkpoint chosen so that most children (about three in four) have reached it by that point, which makes it a practical “expect this by now” guide rather than a pass-or-fail test.

How Learning Curve represents it

The CDC materials are US Government public domain. What appears here are the milestone behaviours grouped by area and age, presented as one independent reference point on when a behaviour typically appears. Learning Curve synthesises this alongside other sources and does not present it as medical advice. This source was gathered from published CDC material and is being verified against the official pages.

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CDC. Learn the Signs. Act Early. Milestone Moments. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023. US Government public domain.