Hdfs 314 Intro and Theory Flashcards
development
distinct from growth, refers to the characteristics, predictable ways in which behavior changes during the human life cycle
typical development
the usual or common progression by which children change as they grow and acquire or refine their knowledge, behavior, and skill
atypical development
a less common progression by which children grow, learn, or demonstrate skills
developmental milestone definition
a behavior, ability, or skill that emerges at a particular age in most children and that can easily be observed and described
development milestones
gross motor
fine motor
language and communication
cognition and problem solving
self-care (adaptive skills)
play
social
development is a
continuum
the rate of development is not constant, which makes it difficult to
determine atypical development in the short term
development is always variable and becomes more variable as
children grow older
generally, 6 months are needed to
establish an atypical pattern
behavioral norms
night walking or signaling
tantrums
taking toys from peers
pushing, biting, hitting
milestone at 4 months
begins to babble responds to affection
milestone at 9 months
his favorite toy understands “no”
milestone at 1 year
trues to say words you day waves “bye-bye”
milestone at 3 years
knows name and age, climbs and runs well
atypical development represents a departure from expected development
delays
deviance/divergence
delays
may be global (across multiple domains) or dissociated (predominately occurring in specific domains)
deviance/divergence
development that is “off-track” rather than delayed
many developmental disabilities have a mixture of
delayed skills and deviant/divergent traits
factors that may impact atypicality
child age
child gender
intensity or frequency of childs reactions
persistence of the
problem as the child develops
context
sociocultural inappropriateness
severity and diversity of problematic behaviors
type of behaviors
changes in behaviors (temporal context)
monitoring for atypicality
surveillance screening
optimizing healthy development
addressing the factors shaping health development trajectories over the lifespan
neurologic perspectives
developmental change parallels brain maturation
plasticity refers to the ability of the nervous system to change and adapt
several theories of development are based on an unfolding of internally driven
biological processes
gesell saw genetics and neurology as
providing a blueprint for development
freud and erikson saw development as the interaction of biological drives with
societal restrictions and social structures
piaget described cognitive development in terms of
a sequence of adaptive responses to the environment based on the processes of assimilation and accommodation
modern information processing theory builds on piagets original work drawing especially on
analogies to computer processing