Child and Adolescent Development
Child and Adolescent Development
A child has many milestones to reach through adolescence. The success of these milestones depends on normal development. Milestones can be challenging regardless of age and size. However, some children experience abnormal development and also delays. Detecting signs of abnormal development in certain age groups requires an understanding of development milestones. Children ages two through five and subsequently fifteen through eighteen years old experience many different growth patterns. The analysis of these groups focuses on the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial changes is beneficial when seeking to understand the progressive challenges of transition from childhood to adolescence. Most parents follow a routine scheduled check-up with a pediatrician to chart the details of a child’s growth and development. A child’s growth refers to the age, size, and weight. Child development is the ability of a child to be able to do more complex things as growth progresses (WebMD, 2011). The development stages encompass gross and fine motor skills, language, cognitive, social, and emotional abilities. A child’s overall developments in these areas are always being observed and examined from pre-school until college. The milestones these children need to meet for each age group in addition to awareness of any delay or abnormality will be discussed below.
When an infant develops and grows to the toddler age of two, you hear of the term terrible two’s. A parent may have observed this stage way before the child’s second birthday. Personal experience has placed the six months to one-year-old in this cliché because of the abilities to crawl and walk sometimes before a toddler’s mind can comprehend. For example, my daughter was able to walk at nine months old. Making sure her surroundings were safe was essential so she did not accidentally pull things down or touch something that could hurt her. My youngest daughter had the ability to climb out
A child has many milestones to reach through adolescence. The success of these milestones depends on normal development. Milestones can be challenging regardless of age and size. However, some children experience abnormal development and also delays. Detecting signs of abnormal development in certain age groups requires an understanding of development milestones. Children ages two through five and subsequently fifteen through eighteen years old experience many different growth patterns. The analysis of these groups focuses on the biological, cognitive, and psychosocial changes is beneficial when seeking to understand the progressive challenges of transition from childhood to adolescence. Most parents follow a routine scheduled check-up with a pediatrician to chart the details of a child’s growth and development. A child’s growth refers to the age, size, and weight. Child development is the ability of a child to be able to do more complex things as growth progresses (WebMD, 2011). The development stages encompass gross and fine motor skills, language, cognitive, social, and emotional abilities. A child’s overall developments in these areas are always being observed and examined from pre-school until college. The milestones these children need to meet for each age group in addition to awareness of any delay or abnormality will be discussed below.
When an infant develops and grows to the toddler age of two, you hear of the term terrible two’s. A parent may have observed this stage way before the child’s second birthday. Personal experience has placed the six months to one-year-old in this cliché because of the abilities to crawl and walk sometimes before a toddler’s mind can comprehend. For example, my daughter was able to walk at nine months old. Making sure her surroundings were safe was essential so she did not accidentally pull things down or touch something that could hurt her. My youngest daughter had the ability to climb out
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