Areas of Development Flashcards
Gain a understanding a child's development and engage with the kid in developmentally appropriate ways.
What is the importance of knowing developmental stages?
Knowing what skills are accomplished within a certain age range can help be able to help the child and support families.
What are the 3 categories of a child development?
Physical
Social-emotional
Cognitive
What are developmental milestones?
They are generalizations that are used as a guide during a Childs’ development. They are skills or behaviors that are normal for this specific age range.
Different factors impact a child’s development in these areas.
What are two areas of physical development?
Gross Motor skills
Fine Motor Skills
What is Gross Motor Skills?
Includes large muscles:
-Legs
-Arms
Torso
What are tasks that kids need gross motor skills to do?
Rolling Over
sitting up
walking
Jumping
What are fine motor skills?
Include smaller muscles such as:
hands
feet
What activities do kids need fine motor skills to complete?
To hold
Shake a rattle
to feed themselves
hold a crayon
Zip a Jacket
What is social-emotional development?
This includes a kids ability to socialize, manage strong emotions, and how they view themselves.
What two therapuetic terms are associated with social-emotional development?
Self-control and self-regulation
What is example of an self-regulation in an infant?
A infant will self-regulate by crying when they are cold, eating when they are hungry, and snuggling when they are ready to sleep.
What does cognitive development include?
Includes several ways that kid learns about the world around them
What are the different areas of learning that impacts how a kid learns?
- Learning and understanding the world around them
-understanding cause and effect
-problem-solving
-receptive language skills ( understanding language)
-Expressive language skills ( ability to use language to share thoughts and feelings)
What are early signs of language development in a infant?
When an infant is babbling, cooing, displaying facial expressions, and gestures.
What are physical milestone development birth to 3 months?
Babies start to do movements that are driven by their reflexes. These movements are sucking, grasping,kicking, and stretching.
What are the physicals milestones of a kid from birth to 3 months old?
Trying to hold up their head while laying on their stomach
Opening and closing their hands to make a fist
Focusing on moving objects
Turning their heads to the direction of something that they hear.
True or False: From 3 to 6 months infants get stronger and have better gross and fine motor control.
True
What are the physical milestones 3 to 6 months?
The infant can put weight on their legs
firmly grasp objects with their hands
roll over without assistance.
Why is social-emotional development important in a infants development ?
In the first 3 months, it is important for an infant to develop healthy attachment’s to parents and caregivers.
An infant’s thrives in an environment that is safe and secure.
How a infant engages and response to others is impacted on their caregiver responds to them .
What is something that occurs during an infants social-emotional development 3 to 6 months?
-They started to see that they are a separate person
- They start to grimace or smile in response to other people.
What is the cognitive development for infants birth to 3 months?
An infants stated to learn about the world around them through their senses such as sight, touch, taste, and sound.
- Infants become interested in their environments.
-They begin to learn and recognize different voices and try to communicate themselves.
What are the cognitive milestones of an infant 3 to 6 months?
Infants will recognize their name
- Respond to being told “no”
-Show curiosity by looking for hidden items.
