Understand Child and Young Person’s Development All children are unique and a lot of their developmental milestones happen naturally as they get older‚ however some can be affected by different life factors‚ such as health‚ environment and background and more specific skills can be learnt and encouraged. There is an expected pattern of development but all children are individual and therefore the rate will vary. There are four categories of development: Physical Development (Birth -
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“Child Development: Birth to Age 2” ECD – 102 Term Paper Prepared By: Patricia I. Ramsey Prepared For: Dr. Switzer What is child development? Child development refers to how a child becomes able to do more complex things as they get older. Development is different than growth. Growth only refers to the child getting bigger in size. When we talk about normal development‚ we are talking about developing skills like: • Gross motor: using large groups of muscles
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Physical development is concerned with the biological changes of the body and the brain. It includes genetics‚ a foetus’s growth in the mother’s womb‚ the birth process‚ brain development and the acquisition of fine motor skills; it also encompasses behaviours that promote and impede health and environmental factors that influence physical growth. (McDevitt & Ormrod‚ 2010‚ p. 5). I have chosen to evaluate the physical developmental stage of middle childhood‚ children the ages of six to ten years
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TDA 2.1 Child and young person development TDA 2.1 Child and young person development. 1.1 Describe expected pattern of children and young people’s development from birth to 19 years. Birth to one year New-born babies can: * see faces as fuzzy shapes * grasp an object that has touched the palm of their hand * turn their head to look for a nipple or teat if their cheek is touched * suck and swallow * try to make stepping movements if they are held
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Brandi MacDonald My Personal Theory of Child Development Vanguard University ECED 101: Child‚ Growth & Development March 14‚ 2014 Caryn Vigil-Price Abstract There are many theories of child development largely because many different people have studied the field for many years. Each theory has their different factors; biology‚ sociology‚ genetics‚ environment‚ and relationships are just a few of them. “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship
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024 Promote child and young person development Assessment criteria 1.2a Assess a child or young person’s development in the following areas: physical (Planned: 0 ‚ Completed:0) In my line of work as a carer there are different ways of assessing a young person for physical development. Each week young people in my care are given a weekly activity and menu planner in which they complete to show what activities and food they are planning through the week. The young people are encouraged to
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Understand Child and Young Person development Outcome 1- The expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth- 19 years Physical Development This is an important area of children’s development and one which is often assumed to take place automatically as they grow and mature. Although children develop many skills naturally as they older‚ it is imperative that they have opportunities to develop them in a variety of ways and they will need support to do this. Age | Stage
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Unit title : Understand child young person development 1.1 Explain the difference between sequence of development and rate of development and why the difference is important. It is important to know the difference between the sequence and the rate of development as it gives us direction when it comes to monitoring child/young persons needs during stages of their school years. We can then plan effectively to make sure the child receives the help and support they need in areas they could
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A study was carried out by two third year psychology students to investigate Piaget ’s stage theory. A 4 years old female child was tested in task of comprehension of more and less‚ followed standard and modified versions of conservation and class inclusion tasks. Results indicated that child exhibited difficulties in both modified conservation and class inclusion tasks despite the removal of some confounds in standard tasks. This infers that children of pre-operational stage do lack the ability
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There are three aspects of development‚ these are: Physical development : Physical development refers to the body increasing in skill and performance and includes : gross motor development ‚this is where large muscles are used for example legs and arms and fine motor development ‚ this is the precise use of muscles for example ‚the use of hands and fingers. Social emotional and behavioural development: This is the development of a child’s self-image and the development of relationships in their
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