Child Development and Developmental Disorders

Question 1

What sensory stimuli and positive early experiences can enhance development?

Answer 1

Healthy pregnancy Secure attachment to parent Good nutrition Opportunities to play and learn

Question 2

What abnormal experience can be detrimental to a childs development?

Answer 2

prenatal exposure to toxins preterm birth and low weight Maternal depression Chronic Illness

Question 3

Who is typically responsible for monitoring a childs early development ?

Answer 3

Parents Health Visitors GP Neonatal service Universal screening for hearing and vision offered at 4 Professionals in nursey

Question 4

What are the 4 functional areas with which a child’s development should be considered?

Answer 4

Gross motor Fine motor and vision Speech, hearing and language Social Skills

Question 5

When assessing child milestones what do the median age and the limit age of acquisition actually mean?

Answer 5

Median age means that 50% of children will have reached that milestone by that age. Limit age means that 97.5% of children will have reach the milestone by that age.

Question 6

What are the milestones for early gross motor development?

Answer 6

Question 7

What gross motor skills would you expect a 15 month old to have?

Answer 7

Able to walk with a wide based gait (9-18 months medial 15 months)

Question 8

At what age range would you expect a child to be able to run, kick a ball and be able to climb stairs with hand held?

Answer 8

18-24 months

Question 9

What fine motor and vision skill should a 4 month old have?

Answer 9

Reaches out for objects

Question 10

What fine motor and vision skill should a 6 month old have?

Answer 10

Palmar grasp

Question 11

What fine motor and vision skill should a 7 month old have?

Answer 11

transfers from hand to hand

Question 12

What fine motor and vision skill should a 10 month old have?

Answer 12

pincer grip

Question 13

What fine motor and vision skill should a 15-18 month old have?

Answer 13

able to scribble to and fro with crayon

Question 14

What fine motor and vision skill should a 2 year old have?

Answer 14

circular scribbles and able to build a tower of 6 blocks

Question 15

What fine motor and vision skill should a 3 year old have?

Answer 15

copies clicle and builds tower of 9 blocks

Question 16

At what age would you expect an infant to turn towards sound?

Answer 16

3 months

Question 17

What Hearing speech and language skill should a 6 month old have?

Answer 17

Tuneful Babling

Question 18

at 12 months old what hearing speech and language skills would you expect an infant to have?

Answer 18

Can respond to name and speak a couple of monosyllabic words

Question 19

At around what age would you expect a child to be able to follow simple commands, point to body parts on instruction and have a vocabulary of 10-15 words?

Answer 19

18 months old

Question 20

At 3 years old what speech and language skills would you expect a child to have?

Answer 20

Able to speak in simple sentences and able to ask coherent questions.