The studies

How and when infants learn to climb stairs

A main source for the ages

How and when infants learn to climb stairs

Sarah E. Berger, Carolin Theuring, Karen E. Adolph · 2006 · Infant Behavior and Development

Children
About 730 families
Where
Not given in the summary we read
Ages
About 8 to 15 months
How
Parents' reports
What it found
Babies first went up stairs on their own at about 11 months on average, nearly always by crawling, and came down at about 12½ months, usually backwards.
Limits
We have only read the summary. These are averages, with no spread of ages.

Read the original study

Pages that use this study

We describe every study in our own words. How we choose and check studies