Understanding Child and Young Person’s Development (Mu5.2)

1 Understand the pattern of development that would normally be expected for children and young people from birth – 19 years

1.1 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of development that would normally be expected in children and young people from birth – 19 years

Birth – 3 months

• Physical
 Sleeps 20 hours a day
 Moves around more
 Focuses both eyes together
 Can detect smells

• Communication
 Crying – main form of communication (fosters early interaction)
 Cries, coos, and grunts
 Smiles at a face (social smiling)

• Intellectual / cognitive
 Imitates some movements and facial expressions

• Social, emotional and behavioural
 Begins to have distinct facial expressions
 Can respond positively to touch
 Can be comforted by a familiar adult

• Moral
 Not developed at this age

• Identity
 Begins to realize he/she is a separate person from others

4 – 6 months

• Physical
 Feeds 3-5 times a day
 Control of head and arm movements
 Reaches, grasps, and puts objects in mouth

• Communication
 Babbling

• Intellectual / cognitive
 Laughs

• Social, emotional and behavioural
 Recognizes parents

• Moral
 Not developed
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• Identity
 Distinguishes familiar people
 Pays attention to own name

7 – 12 months
• Physical
 Sits without support
 Crawls
 Controls legs/feet
 Can stand

• Communication
 Says first real word

• Intellectual / cognitive
 Distinguishes between living and non-living objects
 Aware that objects exist even when out of sight (object permanence)

• Social, emotional and behavioural
 Emotional attachment to parents
 Separation anxiety
 Responds to simple commands

• Moral
 Not yet developed

• Identity
 Responds to own name

1 -2 years

• Physical
 Walks unaided
 Feeds himself/herself
 Runs
 Toilet training

• Communication
 Repeats words
 Vocabulary of more than 200 words

• Intellectual / cognitive
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