Assessment task: Understand child and young person development
Task 1: Assessment criteria 1.1
Age | Physical | Communication | Intellectual/cognitive | Social, emotional & Behavioural | 0-6 months | Reflexes, turns head, hands tightly closed, reacts to sounds, turn from side to back, arm and leg movements jerky, gaze attentively at carer, plays with his/her own fingers, everything starts to be taken to mouth, rolls from back to side, reach for objects. | Cry when hungry or distressed, makes eye contact, moves eyes to direction of sound, makes cooing and gurgling noises, cries become more expressive, sucks or licks lips at sound of food preparation, baby listens closely to high pitched tone, baby begins to laugh and squeal with pleasure. | Feel pain, sensitive to touch, likes sweet tastes ie breast milk, baby will turn to smell of breast, focus on objects, sensitive to light, imitate facial expressions, can imitate high or low pitched sounds, baby links objects to sounds ie mothers voice and her face, knows smell of his/her mother to other mothers, grasp rattle, can recognise …show more content…
| Understands complex sentences, enjoys telling jokes and making up stories, starts to write essays, stories show imagination. | Increased ability to remember, pay attention, speak and express ideas, enjoys tasks that are task oriented, ability to think and reason, plan ahead, can evaluate, understands motives behind peoples actions, can concentrate, curious about drugs, alcohol and tobacco, can develop special talents in music, art, math or writing. | Discouraged easily, takes pride in their competence, can be argumentative and bossy, can be generous, stable relationships with friends, strong attachments to friends.