National Society for Equal Opportunities for the Handicapped

Monitoring the initial years in a child’s life are indicative not just of their growth but also their development. Monitoring is a process which would involve observing how the child grows, plays, learns, speaks, acts and moves. Most of these skills are achieved by a certain age and these functional/age specific skills are referred to as developmental milestones. Most children develop such skills at different rates, achieving these milestones at their own pace.