Understand Children and Young Person’s Development

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Understand Children and Young Person’s development. Outcome 1 1.1 Physical Development. Zero-Three Years This includes the physical growth i.e. height, weight etc of a child and also the development of physical skills. Physical development is affected by diet, exercise and opportunities for physical activity. Physical development can be monitored by Child Growth Records and Developmental checklists. Many theorists such as Jean Piaget and Mary Sheridon have set out ideas of milestones to measure normal development. A child’s physical skills are often referred to as motor skills and these are split into two, categories, fine motor and gross motor skills. * Gross motor skills, Ability to move using whole body movements utilizing large muscles. Gross Motor Skills describe the larger movements of the body and again can be split into two areas: Gross motor skills which are whole limb movements such as kicking a ball Locomotive skills are the movements children need when they are walking, running, skipping, jumping and so on. * Fine motor or fine manipulative skills, Ability to perform finer skills that require hand eye co-ordination. This broadly describes the smaller movements. It can be further divided into two areas: Fine Manipulative Skills which include the skills needed for drawing, writing, threading etc. Fine Motor Skills which include the whole hand and wrist movements such as opening a jar or rubbing hands together. This period shows the most rapid physical growth and development. The birth to three matters framework has set out four key groups to describe milestones in this age group. The groups are: * Heads up, Lookers and communicators (Zero-Eight months) * Sitters, Standers and Explorers (Eight-Eighteen months) * Movers, Shakers and players (Eighteen-Twenty Four months) * Walkers, Talkers,
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