Unit MU 1.7 Introduction to children and young people’s development
Unit MU 1.7 Introduction to children and young people’s development
1. Know the main stages if children and young people’s development.
1.1 Outline the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years to include:
Physical development
Communication
Intellectual development
Social, emotional and behavioural development
Infancy (0-3 years)
Physical – infants are quite helpless and dependent when are born and in order to survive they need to be looked after. To ensure this happens they are born with several reflexes. These include rooting, sucking, swallowing, grasping, and stepping and startle reflex.
Babies are helpless when they are born and they don’t have very much muscular co-ordination. They are able to focus their eyes very quickly and follow sound from side to side as well as being able to cry and make gurgling sounds
Soon the muscles begin to strengthen and babies start to control their movements. This allows them to begin exploring their environment and learn how their world operates. Physical control and co-ordination progress downwards, beginning with the head and moving through the neck, trunk arms and the legs.
Muscle control 0-3 years:
2 Months – able to raise head when lying on stomach
4 Months- can grasp objects using whole hand
6 Months- Can sit up without support
8 Months – Can start to crawl
12 Months – can walk without help
18 Months- Can climb stairs and run but often falls
2 Years - Can controls muscles which allow for toilet training and can climb on furniture and kick a ball but not yet catch one
3 Years- can jump and ride a tricycle
Intellectual – means the development of the mind and lets us to recognise, remember, reason, know and understand thing around us. We also develop communication skills which allow us to make ourselves understood and to develop relationships.
As children interact with the environment they slowly organise their thoughts and develop a set of
1. Know the main stages if children and young people’s development.
1.1 Outline the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years to include:
Physical development
Communication
Intellectual development
Social, emotional and behavioural development
Infancy (0-3 years)
Physical – infants are quite helpless and dependent when are born and in order to survive they need to be looked after. To ensure this happens they are born with several reflexes. These include rooting, sucking, swallowing, grasping, and stepping and startle reflex.
Babies are helpless when they are born and they don’t have very much muscular co-ordination. They are able to focus their eyes very quickly and follow sound from side to side as well as being able to cry and make gurgling sounds
Soon the muscles begin to strengthen and babies start to control their movements. This allows them to begin exploring their environment and learn how their world operates. Physical control and co-ordination progress downwards, beginning with the head and moving through the neck, trunk arms and the legs.
Muscle control 0-3 years:
2 Months – able to raise head when lying on stomach
4 Months- can grasp objects using whole hand
6 Months- Can sit up without support
8 Months – Can start to crawl
12 Months – can walk without help
18 Months- Can climb stairs and run but often falls
2 Years - Can controls muscles which allow for toilet training and can climb on furniture and kick a ball but not yet catch one
3 Years- can jump and ride a tricycle
Intellectual – means the development of the mind and lets us to recognise, remember, reason, know and understand thing around us. We also develop communication skills which allow us to make ourselves understood and to develop relationships.
As children interact with the environment they slowly organise their thoughts and develop a set of