Your Child at 6 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
Rolls over in both directions (on tummy and back)
Pushes up on extended arms
Sits without support
Grabs at feet
Passes an object from one hand to the other
Uses a raking grasp to pick up small objects
Supports weight on legs when in a standing position
Communication
Responds by making sounds
Responds to tones of voice
Repeats syllables (ah-ah, eh-eh)
Begins to use /m/ and /b/ sounds
Responds to own name
Cognitive
Uncovers partially hidden toys
Explores with hands and mouth
Tries to get things that are out of reach
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Doesn’t reach for things
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Has difficulty rolling over
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Seems very stiff or seems very floppy
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Has difficulty bringing things to mouth
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Doesn’t laugh or smile at familiar adults
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Doesn’t track objects with both eyes
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Shows no affection for caregiver
Social
Looks at self in a mirror
Plays with familiar people
Recognizes differences in familiar and unfamiliar people
