Child Development (ages 0-5years-Haley's chart) Flashcards
What are the general developmental characteristics of a 2 month old?
- Gained 50% above birth weight
- Clear social interactions
- Passed fussiness
- Sleeps longer stretches
Describe the motor development of a 2 month old.
- Holds up head and shoulders
- Begins to push up when on abdomen
- Makes smoother arm/leg movements
- Still does not have purposeful movement
Describe the cognitive and fine motor development of a 2 month old.
- Pays close attention to faces
- Follow with eyes and recognizes people at a distance
- Regards objects and follows though 180 degrees
- Begins to act bored if activity doesn’t change
Describe the language development of a 2 month old
- Coos and makes gurgling sounds
- Reciprocal vocalizations
- Turns head towards sounds
Describe the social development of a 2 month old.
- Smiles at people => “social smile”
- Can calm by their self by hand sucking
- Turn toward parent
Describe the sleep and nutrition needs of a 2 month old.
- Sleep longer but need to wake at least once
- Breastfeeding or formula
- No teeth
- Rear facing car seat
- Don’t leave in seat up high
- No co-bedding
What are signs of developmental delay in a 2 month old?
- Doesn’t respond to loud sounds
- Does not visually fix on objects
- Doesn’t watch things as they move
- Doesn’t smile at people
- Doesn’t bring hands to mouth
- Can’t hold head up when pushing up when on tummy
What are the general developmental characteristics of a 4 month old?
- Half will sleep most of the night
- Less crying
- Plays with toys
- No solid foods
Describe the motor development of a 4 month old.
- Holds head steady
- No head lag
- Pushes down when feet on a hard surface
- Roll over
- Holds toys
- Brings hands to mouth
- Hands mostly open
- Push to elbows when on stomach
- Rolls front to back
Describe the cognitive and fine motor development of a 4 month old.
- Know if happy or sad
- Reaches for a toy with one hand
- Uses eyes and hands together
- Follows more things side to side
- Watch faces closely
- Recognizes familiar people and things at a distance
Describe the language development of a 4 month old.
- Begin to babble
- Occasional consonant sounds
- Copy sounds
- Cries in different ways to show hunger, pain, or being tired
- Laughs out loud
Describe the social development of a 4 month old.
- Smiles at people
- Likes to play
- Cries when playing stops
- Copies movements or facial expressions
Describe the sleep and nutrition needs of a 4 month old.
- Half sleep through the night
- Wake up calm
- Few have teeth
- Only eat milk or formula
- Sleep risk highest due to crib environment
- Rolls off surface
What are signs of developmental delay in a 4 month old?
- Doesn’t watch things as they move
- Doesn’t smile at people
- Cant hold head steady
- Doesn’t coo
- Doesn’t bring things to mouth
- Doesn’t push down with legs when feet are on a hard surface
- Has trouble moving one or both eyes in all directions
What are the general developmental characteristics of a 6 month old?
- May sleep through the night
- Take 2-3 naps
- Starts to eat at regular times
- Starting solid foods
- Close to sitting up
Describe the motor development of a 6 month old.
- Rolls over in both directions
- Begins to sit without support
- When standing supports weight on legs and might bounce
- Reaches out and rakes objects toward self
Describe the cognitive and fine motor development of a 6 month old.
- Looks at things near by
- Brings things to mouth
- Shows curiosity
- Tries to get things
- Finds partly hidden objects
- Pass things from one hand to the other
Describe the language development of a 6 month old.
- Responds to sounds by making sounds
- Turns to sounds
- Responds to own name
- Makes sounds to show joy and displeasure
- Stops for no
- Begins to say consonant sounds
Describe the social development of a 6 month old.
- Knows familiar faces and begins to recognize if someone is a stranger
- Likes to play with others
- Bangs and shakes toys
- Responds to other’s emotions and often seems happy
- Likes to look at self in the mirror
Describe the sleep and nutritional needs of a 6 month old.
- Regular night sleep
- 2 regular naps
- May sleep in own room
- Lower crib mattress
- Start solid food
- Bottom teeth
- No walkers
- Getting ready to move
What are signs of developmental delay in a 6 month old?
- Doesn’t get things in reach
- No affection
- No sound response
- Difficulty getting things to mouth
- Doesn’t make vowel sounds
- Doesn’t roll over
- Doesn’t laugh or squeal
- Stiff
- Floppy
What are the general developmental characteristics of a 9 month old?
- Starts to play games
- Has regular meals and snacks
- Takes 2 naps
- Starts to move and explore
Describe the motor development of a 9 month old.
- Stands holding on
- Can get to sitting
- Sits without support
- Pulls to stand
- Bear walks
- Crawls
Describe the fine motor and cognitive development of a 9 month old.
- Watches path of something falling
- Object permanence
- Looks for things you hide
- Puts things in their mouth move things smoothly from hand to hand
- Rings a bell
- Picks up small things with pincer grasp
Describe the language development of a 9 month old
- Understands no
- Makes a lot of different sounds
- Orient to their name
- Copies sounds and gestures
- Uses finger to point
Describe the social development of a 9 month old.
- Afraid of strangers
- Recognizes familiar people
- May be clingy
- Has a favorite toy
- Follows trajectory of pointing
What are the sleep and nutritional needs of a 9 month old?
- Two regular naps
- Regular bedtime with routine
- Diet is varied
- Self feeds
- Fed by spoon
- Start brushing teeth
- Watch out for doors, stairs, shelves
What are signs of developmental delay in a 9 month old?
- Doesn’t bear weight with support
- Doesn’t sit up with help
- Doesn’t babble with consonants
- Doesn’t play games with back and forth
- Doesn’t respond to own name
- Doesn’t recognize familiar people
- Doesn’t look where you point.