Assessment for parents
A parent-led screening inventory across seven developmental domains. You complete it at home, and every milestone not yet reached comes back with remediation activities matched to it.
Purchasing opens soon through our storefront. Once you check out and complete it, your Individualized Developmental Profile and a targeted home activity schedule are generated for you.
Development does not arrive on a schedule, and two children the same age can be a year apart in one domain and level in the next.
No one observes the subtle shifts in focus, emotional regulation or daily frustration better than you do.
The baseline
Standard clinical metrics show where things sit on paper. That has value, and it is not the same as knowing what a Tuesday afternoon actually feels like in your living room.
The key
Your daily insight is the piece no standard test can reach. The Milestones inventory takes what you already notice every day and turns it into clear, practical steps you can actually use.
The Milestones Project was created to replace the stress of traditional pediatric testing with an empowering roadmap. By pairing your front-line observations with practical neuroplasticity tracking, we build a complete picture of how your child learns, processes, and thrives, all from the comfort of home.
Every domain develops at its own pace and in its own order. That is why each area is screened across the entire span, from birth through age six.
Large muscle movement and full-body coordination
Assesses how your child coordinates foundational movements such as sitting, crawling, walking, running, and maintaining core balance.
Dexterity of the hands and fingers
Monitors tasks requiring precise motor control, including grasping objects, manipulating toys, writing, and hand-eye coordination.
Sensory integration with physical movement
Tracks how the central nervous system interprets visual and auditory data to guide movement and spatial awareness.
Receptive and expressive language growth
Evaluates receptive language (how your child understands spoken words) and expressive language (how they use sounds, gestures, and words to communicate ideas and feelings).
Attention, memory and early problem solving
Looks at how your child attends, remembers, sorts and reasons: holding focus on a task, recalling what came before, matching and grouping objects, and working out how to get a result.
Emotional development and relational bonding
Assesses how your child interacts with others, responds to social cues, expresses emotion, and forms healthy relationships with family and peers.
Growing autonomy in daily living
Reviews age-appropriate independence in routine activities such as self-feeding, dressing, toileting, and basic safety habits.
Three simple steps, completed entirely from home, on your own schedule.
After a quick introductory page, you move through one page for each developmental domain. You review the skills and celebrate the milestones your child has reached. Nothing is timed, and you can pause and return whenever you like.
Your summary compares functional age to chronological age across all seven domains. You receive a clear, individual breakdown rather than a single generalized score, because every child naturally thrives in some areas while taking their time in others.
Every milestone your child is still working toward comes with three targeted remediation activities designed specifically for that domain. You try them together at home and log back in to update your child’s milestones as new skills emerge.
Seven functional ages, one for each domain, set directly alongside your child’s actual age. We provide a full developmental profile rather than a single score, because a single number hides the very details you came to find.
| Domain | Functional age | Variance |
|---|---|---|
| Gross motor | 38 mo | +2 |
| Fine motor | 36 mo | 0 |
| Perceptual-motor | 30 mo | −6 |
| Language | 33 mo | −3 |
| Cognitive | 34 mo | −2 |
| Social and personal | 39 mo | +3 |
| Self-help | 35 mo | −1 |
Having a child ahead in one area and taking their time in another is completely normal. What matters is the size of the gap and where it sits, because that is what shapes your action plan.
In this sample, the perceptual-motor gap is where we would focus our attention. Targeted remediation activities follow that specific domain, giving you three practical activities for every milestone still to come. You can try them at home, then return to update the inventory as new skills emerge.
During the first six years of life, the central nervous system is at its most adaptable. Identifying a developmental shift at age three makes it significantly easier to bridge the gap than waiting until age six.
This is not a formal diagnosis. It is a structured screening inventory designed to spot early neurodevelopmental shifts so you can begin targeted support right away, replacing the stress of traditional testing with a clear, confident roadmap.
The Developmental Milestones inventory produces your child’s Individualized Developmental Profile (IDP). This custom profile guides every step of the journey forward. For older children and adults ages seven and up, the equivalent starting point is our NeuroDevelopmental Profile.
When an area shows a need for support, remediation follows the specific domain, not a child’s chronological age or a diagnostic label. Most often that begins with targeted cognitive retraining through Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy, playful exercises designed to strengthen specific processing pathways. When nervous system regulation is part of the picture, we integrate NeuroCognitive Processing so the brain can settle and focus at the same time. Either way, your child’s plan is built directly from their unique profile, never from a cookie-cutter template.
Common questions parents have before beginning the Milestones inventory. Have a question not listed here? Reach out, we are always happy to help.
Newborns through seventy-two months, which is birth to six years.
You do. It is parent-led, because no one observes the subtle shifts in focus, emotional regulation, or daily routines better than you do.
You receive your child’s Individualized Developmental Profile (IDP) across seven core domains, paired with three targeted, home-based remediation activities for every milestone still to come.
No. It is a structured screening inventory designed to identify early neurodevelopmental shifts so support can begin sooner. It is built to replace the stress of traditional pediatric testing with a clear, empowering roadmap.
No. Our short symptom checklists on the assessment page are free to explore, but Developmental Milestones and the NeuroDevelopmental Profile are comprehensive, annual tools. Your membership saves your child’s history year over year, dynamically updating their activities as new skills emerge without making you start from scratch. Purchasing opens soon through our storefront.
What we hand parents to use at home, sold through our storefront.
A bedtime story a child breathes along with, so the breathing is learned without being taught.
$9.95 USD
A practical signing dictionary for opening a channel with a child who is not yet speaking.
$14.95 USD
Handwriting reaches memory and emotional processing along pathways typing does not. Shipped inside the US.
$14.95 USD
Prices in USD, as published in the storefront. Checkout, delivery and support for anything on this shelf run through store.cognitive-connections.com.
Parent-led, completed from home, and designed for birth through seventy-two months. It takes what you notice every day and turns it into an empowering plan forward.