Hallie BulkinAsk HallieAI:Your On-Demand Mentor in Pediatric Feeding & Myo

Your Clinical Secret Weapon: The Milestone Chart 📊

5 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of her YouTube talk, Hallie Bulkin introduces an updated version of the developmental milestone chart, emphasizing its visual clarity (no green shading, more blue). She explains how clinicians can use the chart to assess children by aligning observed skills with the appropriate age level, including adjustments for corrected age in preterm infants (e.g., a child born two months early who is 14 months old but functions at a 12‑month level). Bulkin highlights the chart’s practicality: it can be laminated, placed on a wall, and used with a separate sheet of paper for quick, COVID‑safe updates. The overall message is that this simple, visual tool is a “secret weapon” for everyday clinical practice.

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And so when I say the milestone chart, I'm talking about this one. Now in yours, 'cause we've updated it, it's gonna be a little bit bluer. There's not gonna be any green on it anymore. But the beautiful thing about this is like, let's say that you're working with a 12-month-old, and this could be a kid who's adjusted to 12 months because maybe they're 18 months, but let's say they're actually 14 months old, but they were born 2 months early. Their skills are actually at a 12-month-old level. We would still adjust there, or they're actually 12 months and functioning at a 12-month-old level chronologically and cognitively, right? So we look at where we would expect them to be around 12 months, and I fold it in half and I say, you see this? This is what we're looking at for your kiddo. You see all this? Ignore that. It's such a great visual to have, and you can laminate it and just use another piece of paper to just, you know, kind of COVID it up. So I share that because this tool is something that I personally use in practice all the time, and I think, again, it's something you should laminate and stick on your wall.