3 year check-what to expect?

[hellymelly]

My DD is having a three year check next week,my older dd didn't have this for some reason,so I have no idea what they will look for/expect of her.I don't have any concerns about her,her two year check was fine,I am just curious what they will be checking now.

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didn't want your post unanswered.
dd (age 4) had never had one

dd (age 11) did, but was a while back. They asked him to say words auch as aeroplane, got him to stack bricks, and talked about colours is I remember rightly

That sounds like her two-year check,then she had to build a tower of blocks,throw a ball,name various things shown to her on picture cards etc.I suppose I am slightly worried that I haven't taught her something that she should know by now (neglected second born!)although I know she is fine generally,I have no idea what the criteria are.Thanks for your reply,very kind of you.

We had a check this week, DD is 2.7. The health visitor got one of the books out of the Bookstart bag and got DD to name the animals in the pictures and do some of the noises. OK apart from DD calling the crocodile a dinosaur and calling a koala a polar bear. Then she got out paper and a crayons. This was to check colour recognition and then asked her to draw a line down and a line up followed by a circle. Testing her grip on the crayon and if she could follow instructions and her dexterity with a crayon.

She spent quite a lot of time just chatting to her to see how her language was developing. At 3 they expect most of their speech to be intelligible to people outside the immediate family.

She asked us about her general health and if we had any concerns. She also weighed DD and measured her height. (cue when DD got on wobbly weighing scales, wobbled herself and declared "I'm drunk". HV found it funny rather than worrying fortunately).

HV wrapped up by telling us how she thought DD was progressing and giving her the Bookstart pack. Came out of the HV's room and DD said "That was lots of fun. Doctor is brilliant". It was all quite laid back and the HV did explain everything she was doing and why.

HTH.

at drunk dd!

Here they do a 2 year check,which she had at 22m,and a three year (she is three and 2m).The HV comes to our house.Last time the main problem was stopping my jealous older dd from being too disruptive as she also wanted to show how well she could build a tower etc.My dd isn't at a nursery or anything,she's just at home with me,so I don't know how she is doing in relation to her peers and what she should be able to do now she's three.

It might be worth a trip to your local library as they often have books on child development and what to expect when.

Hi,

We received a letter from our local NHS trust yesterday regarding DD's 3 year check. She is actually 3.6 so they are a bit slow off the mark! They don't actually see the children routinely at 3 in our area so they sent out a checklist for us to go through ourselves and said we should get in touch if we had any concerns. This is going to be long, but I'll let you know what it said on the checklist!

*Walk up and down stairs
*Climb easily
*Run around obstacles without falling over
*Kick a ball
*Throw a ball overhand and catch a large ball between extended arms
*Stand on one leg
*Hold a pencil in preferred hand
*Copy circle and straight line
*Turn one page in a book at a time
*Match two of the three primary colours i.e. red and yellow
*Can say own name and whether they are a boy or a girl
*Can carry on a simple conversation
*Ask questions what, where, why, who
*Knows several nursery rhymes or songs and sings
*Listens to stories and demands favourites
*Counts up to ten
*Eats with a fork and a spoon
*Able to use and drink from a cup
*Can wash hands but needs help with drying
*Can put pants and knickers up and down
*Toilet trained during the day
*Enjoys floor play with bricks boxes etc/make believe play
*Understands sharing

I have copied it exactly from the letter. Hope it helps.

thanks,she can do all those things.so that's great.I have never had any worries about her language etc as she started talking at five months old and was very articulate by 12m.Also she has been out of nappies day and night since 24m, but with physical/sporty things I have no idea whether she needs to do more ,or not.She has always used a cup as i'm still bf and have never used bottles or sippy cups in case they encouraged nipple biting.the list is reassuring anyway.

They don't see the children at all here - not even at 2 so doubt he'll be seen at 3! I do wonder if I didn't shout up sometimes no one would even know about him

Besides - my son still can't talk at almost 3 and is under SALT but it doesn't make him ready for the scrap heap just yet he is very bright in other ways.

And I am an early years worker normally, so know what the targets are etc, but still hasn't made any difference to him!

dd's 2 year check wasnt really one,she greeted hv with a barrage of questions and demands and hv turned it in to how I was coping!!