Healthy Children Milestone Category

Visual and Hearing

Milestone Name	Expected Age
Watches faces intently	3
Follows moving objects	3
Recognizes familiar objects and people at a distance	3
Starts using hands and eyes in coordination	3
Smiles at the sound of your voice	3
Begins to babble	3
Begins to imitate some sounds	3
Turns head toward direction of sound	3
Develops full color vision	7
Distance vision matures	7
Ability to track moving objects improves	7
Focuses 8 to 12 inches (20.3 to 30.4 cm) away	1
Eyes wander and occasionally cross	1
Prefers black-and-white or high-contrast patterns	1
Prefers the human face to all other patterns	1
Hearing is fully mature	1
Recognizes some sounds	1
May turn toward familiar sounds and voices	1