Evidence will show that a child’s growth and development has many aspects including physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, social-emotional, and language development. The concept of development is follows a unique pattern which involves social and cultural environments. These things influence the role of shaping the learning process of a child states Allen & Marotz, (2010). The concept of growth includes mild variations and simple irregularities. These mean that achievement of certain skills according to predictable sequence, many with individual variations, which are typical, and a cumulative process in which each new aspect of growth builds on earlier changes; each accomplishment builds from the previous learned skill states Allen & Marotz, (2010).
Although all children will develop at different rates and in different ways, the sequence in which they develop will be roughly the same as they need to have developed one skill, for example walking, before they move on to develop another such as running and jumping. Development is often referred to on a timeline and is broken down in ages. As development is more rapid in early years the milestones start by being quite close together before becoming further apart as baby becomes a child and then a young adult. The aspects of development that children are measured on are physical, language, social and emotional, and intellect. From birth through to adulthood children continually grow, develop, and learn.
As the new born grows into a young person he can take care of his or her own body and interact effectively with others. For these reasons, the primary developmental task of this stage is skill development. (Eamon, 2001) Physically, between the ages of three and five years, children continue to grow rapidly and begin to develop adequate motor skills. They began to master typical many skills like sitting, walking, and toilet training, using a spoon, scribbling and hand and eye coordination to catch and throw a ball. By age of five most children demonstrate fairly good control of pencils, crayons, and scissors.
Communication and Intellectual development starts from the moment a baby is born. In cases where a baby has been neglected from this early stage it is found that they will experience difficulties in effective communication later in life. Babies enjoy listening to songs and games and most sill start to speak by around 12 months old. Between the ages of 1-2 they will be able to form short sentences and by the age of 2 will have a vocabulary of around 200 words. By the age of 3 a child will be using negatives and plurals in their speech and vocabulary will increase rapidly.
The stages of development begin with rapid evolvement for the infant from prenatal to three years of age. According to Berger (2008), “All theorist agree that the first two years are crucial, with early emotional and social development influenced by the parents’ behavior, the quality of day care, cultural patterns, and inborn traits” (p. 199). Nutritional needs, medical needs as well as emotional well-being are crucial elements that require family support. Family involvement and its environment will always play a key role in health and development as the child grows. The Family Affect on Infant Development The relationship between an infant and his or her caregivers is crucial and is the starting point or groundwork laid for future relationships (Kowalski & Westen, 2009, p. 459).
STAGES OF INFANT DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS By: Lana Sakic Metropolitan Community College DISCUSSION: The healthy development of an infant is crucial in order for children to grow into healthy adults. I will focus on discussing the physical, social and emotional, and intellectual development of an infant between the ages of birth to two years. In their first two years, children will develop their gross motor skills, such as crawling and walking and fine motor skills, like holding a fork and picking up small objects with their thumb and finger. They will adapt to and develop their senses of sight and hearing and will learn to differentiate through taste, smell and touch. Also during this period, the child will make great strides in language and social skills (Lockman, 2009, p.6).
Developmental Process Presentation JCH Developmental Process Presentation There are many noticeable physical and mental differences between early childhood (2-6 years old) and middle childhood (6-10 years old). In early childhood their language and communication skills start to develop quickly. The child will begin to learn new vocabulary, the correct use of language in social settings and their grammar has noticeable changes. Even with all these advancements that are taking pace, it is still noticeable that these children are just in the beginning stages of learning as compared to children in middle childhood. In middle childhood children have already developed a set of language skills.
Each aspect is important and all have impact on each other. To better explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development, the development will be divided into age groups: ZERO TO SIX MONTHS BABY Physical Development: • From the birth each month we can see the changes in the weight of the baby and the growth of the body parts • It will be able to turn its head to sound and movement • Watch the parent’s face while feeding • Smile at familiar faces and voices • stretches to reach its feet while lying down • tries to reach for and grab objects • keeps things in its mouth independently. Social and emotional development: • A six month old baby will respond to their mother’s face, smile. • Needs comfort and cuddles from their parents. Language development: • A six month old baby will be able to make a variety of happy sounds.
According to Piaget the first two years of life children learn with their eyes, hands, and other sensorimotor equipment. He called this the “sensorimotor stage” during this stage of development the newborn is equipped with a set of capacities that allow them to interact with the environment and the parents (Berk, 2014). Providing Jacob with this stimulation for the next 8 months he will develop and increase his motor skills and cognitive abilities. Every day Jacob was interacting and learning about his surroundings, he was creating new connections within his brain. The cognitive factors that influenced the development of Jacob are best explained by Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Erickson’s psychosocial stages.
University of Phoenix Material Developmental Stages Matrix Complete the matrix by listing out the various changes in each age group. |Developmental Stage |Physical changes |Cognitive changes |Socioemotional changes | |Infancy |During the infancy stage, the cells of the body grow |In the infancy stage infants develop cognitive |In the infancy stage, bonding between children and | | |at a phenomenal rate and in the first year, infants |development by observing, imitating, and acting on |parents is important because when a baby is in need | | |grow almost 12 inches and almost triple their birth |stimulus in their environment so that they can |of something, the baby may cry which causes the | | |weight. By the age of two, children grow quickly but|establish sensory and motor skills. Varied memory |parents to respond by soothing the needs of the | | |not as fast as they do in their first year of life. |length allows infants the use of assimilation to |child.