School age children Flashcards
What marks the beginning of school age children and the end of school aged children?
begins when they start losing their baby (deciduous) teeth and ends when they acquire last of permanent teeth.
What are the different ages of school age children?
early childhood: 5-7
middle childhood: 8-10
late childhood: 11-12
What did Freud call the school age children stage?
Latency Stage
Which lobe of the brain is the last to develop fully? what is it responsible for?
Frontal brain
Decision making and problem solving
What part of the brain is responsible for intelligence?
Cerebral Cortex
When does the head circumference reach adult size?
12 years old
What is height and weight increase per year for school age child?
2 1/2 inches and 5-7 lbs a year
What age is there increased sense of competition and improved eye hand coordination?
Late childhood
T/F language development is closely related to cognitive development
True
What can a 6 year old achieve for language development?
good word retrieval
understood fully by adults
can follow simple directions
Stuttering is normal at this age and should be ignored because it usually goes away
What can a 7 year old do for language development
organize previous knowledge and express it verbally or in writing
masters at language decoding and progresses to encoding information
solves word problems
has trouble with “th” sound
What can 8-9 year old do for language
use pronouns demonstrates syntactic growth think abstractly tell jokes understand grammar
10 year old language development
understand metaphors and inflection
concrete operational thinking
analyze and interpret language
aware of inconsistencies
12 year old for language development
express emotions
uses language as a tool for socialization
