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Development Stages In child development we look at
development milestones. 1. What is most important to
remember, about these milestones, when looking at individual children?
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Development Checks
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2. When do most babies have a development check? 3. What will be checked by the doctor or health
visitor?
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There are four main areas of child development. To help us remember them we use the acronym PIES.
4. What does this stand for?
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Physical Development
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5. What are the five senses which are part of physical development?
6. The learning of physical skills are gradual. The first stage includes gaining the gross motor skills. What do these include?
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The first skill learned is head control.
At about 3 months there is some head lag.
7. What is head lag? 8. By what age can the
baby support and turn its head?
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9. These babies have just reached the stage where they can sit up and turn their bodies by themselves. How old would you expect them to be?
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10. What important skill is this baby able to do?
Push Up
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11. At what age would we expect a baby to be crawling?
12. Do all babies crawl?
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Some babies pull themselves up and take a few steps. At a young age, they hold onto furniture and will start walking rather than crawl.
13. By what age will most babies be able to walk by themselves?
Walking
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Comparing Development
These two children are cousins. There are 11 months difference in their ages. Emma has developed more gross motor skills than Matthew.
Matthew is 9 months old
Matthew is 9 months old
Emma is 20 months old
Emma is 20 months old
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14. What physical skills has Emma developed that Matthew has not?
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This little boy is three. He can use a push along tricycle and he can pedal.
15. How would you expect him to get up the stairs?
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By 4 years, the child can walk up and down stairs normally.
Their gross motor skills are very good.
16. What more advanced skills are they showing? (look carefully at the picture)
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Fine Manipulative Skills
This is the fine hand and finger control that we use for picking up small objects.
For drawing or writing or using a knife and fork.
The picture shows the hand of a new born baby.
17. What is this showing? Is it a fine manipulative skill? What will happen to this action?
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18. Complete these statements below. At about …… months the baby can
grasp an object and pass it from hand to hand
At 9 months the baby can use the …… and ……… to pick up an object
By 10 months babies can use the thumb and ……… finger to pick up small objects
At 1 year old the baby can …… to an object it wants and ……… things
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This little girl has more advanced manipulative skills.
She can draw circles, dots and lines, drink from a cup and turn single pages in a book. She uses a spoon to feed herself.
19. She is an average child. How old would you expect her to be? 12 months / 18 months or 2 years?
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20. What advanced skills are these four year olds showing?
21. Name one other very practical skill they will now have.
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Suggested Answers 1. All children are different and an
illness or a premature birth may affect when a child reaches its milestones.
2. 6 weeks, 18 months, 3½ years 3. Growth, physical development and
sensory responses. 4. Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and
Social development. 5. Touch, smell, sight, hearing and
taste. 6. use the large muscles in the body
such as in the arms and legs. 7. When the baby’s head flops back
when the baby is picked up. 8. Six months. 9. Nine months. 10. It can lift its head and chest when
lying on its front. 11. One year.
12 . No some babies do not crawl but will shuffle on their bottoms before starting to walk.
13. Fifteen months. 14. Emma can walk, run climb up stairs
and has started to climb onto furniture. 15. One step at a time but still having
both feet on each step as he climbs. 16. Balance, catch a ball, hop and skip. 17. Grasp reflex, no it is automatic and it
will disappear in a few weeks. 18. 6 months, thumb and fingers, index,
point and throw. 19. 2 years. 20. Holding scissors, cutting,
manipulating small objects. 21. Feeding themselves with knife and
fork and dressing themselves.
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