Child Development
1. Summarise the main development of a child from the age range of:
2. years
A child grows at the fastest rate between the ages of 0-2 years. Their gross & fine motor skills are developing from the moment they are born, starting with the involuntarily kicking of legs and waving arms around as a newborn, they will then start to develop their gross motor skills by first being able to hold their own head, then they will be able to turn their head to watch an object or person, sit unaided, roll over from back to front, sit up unaided, start to crawl, stand and cruise along furniture before eventually being able to walk unaided. Then they will be able to climb up & then down stairs. By the end of this age range they will also be able to run (but will have difficulty stopping), jump and climb with ease.
Their fine motor skills are developing and you will see them going from objects in their fist, to using pincer reflex to pick up objects, then transferring them to another hand. As they become more mobile they will be keen to explore everything around them & will start to build small towers with blocks, grasp pencils and scribble, point with one finger, feed themselves, throw a ball (but will be unable to catch one at this stage), bend to pick up objects, start doing jigsaw puzzles. Another physical development occurs when they start to drop thing deliberately at around the age of 8 months. This fits in with Piaget’s Object Permanence in the sensory motor stage as the child begins to see things do not disappear if they can’ be seen and they are constantly testing this out by seeing where things go.
They will at first explore things at first by putting them in their mouth, then once their fine motor skills become more developed they will take objects and see what happens when they push/pull/throw them. In Piagets theory he describes this process as schematic activity, the child first assimilates (takes information into the mind and processes it), then
2. years
A child grows at the fastest rate between the ages of 0-2 years. Their gross & fine motor skills are developing from the moment they are born, starting with the involuntarily kicking of legs and waving arms around as a newborn, they will then start to develop their gross motor skills by first being able to hold their own head, then they will be able to turn their head to watch an object or person, sit unaided, roll over from back to front, sit up unaided, start to crawl, stand and cruise along furniture before eventually being able to walk unaided. Then they will be able to climb up & then down stairs. By the end of this age range they will also be able to run (but will have difficulty stopping), jump and climb with ease.
Their fine motor skills are developing and you will see them going from objects in their fist, to using pincer reflex to pick up objects, then transferring them to another hand. As they become more mobile they will be keen to explore everything around them & will start to build small towers with blocks, grasp pencils and scribble, point with one finger, feed themselves, throw a ball (but will be unable to catch one at this stage), bend to pick up objects, start doing jigsaw puzzles. Another physical development occurs when they start to drop thing deliberately at around the age of 8 months. This fits in with Piaget’s Object Permanence in the sensory motor stage as the child begins to see things do not disappear if they can’ be seen and they are constantly testing this out by seeing where things go.
They will at first explore things at first by putting them in their mouth, then once their fine motor skills become more developed they will take objects and see what happens when they push/pull/throw them. In Piagets theory he describes this process as schematic activity, the child first assimilates (takes information into the mind and processes it), then