Ct230

CT230 Understand Child and Young Person Development

1.1 EXPLAIN THE SEQUENCE AND RATE OF EACH ASPECT OF DEVELOPMENT FROM BIRTH -19 YEARS.
The aspects of development are:
  Physical Development
  Intellectual
  Language
  Emotional
  Social
  Spiritual
Physical Development
Physical development involves children’s increased ability to perform more complex physical activities. Gross motor skills involve moving the whole body eg. Walking, jumping and climbing. Fine motor skills involve hand movements, wrist action and procedures using the fingers eg. Drawing, cutting, writing. Co-ordination involves eye to hand control   eg. Painting, threading beads and Whole body co-ordination.   eg. Playing football.
0-3 MONTHS
  Sleeps much of the time  
  Tries to lift head  
  Starts to kick legs and movements gradually become smoother  
  Starts to wave arms about  
  Begins to hold objects when placed in hand  
  Grasp reflex diminishes as hand and eye co-ordination begins to develop  
  Enjoys finger play  
  Learns to roll from side to back  
  Sees best at a distance of 25cm then gradually starts watching objects further away  
  Needs opportunity to play and exercise (soft toys, cloth books, play mat)
3-9 MONTHS
  Establishes head control; moves head round to follow people and objects  
  Begins to sit with support; from about 6 months sits unsupported  
  Rolls over  
  May begin to crawl, stand and cruise while holding on to furniture (from about 6 months)  
  Learns to pull self-up to sitting position  
  Begins to use palmer grasp and transfers objects from one hand to the other  
  Develops pincer grasp using thumb and index finger (from about 6 months)  
  Continue to enjoy finger rhymes  
  Drop things deliberately and searches for hidden/dropped objects (from about 8 months)  
  Puts objects into containers and takes them out  
  Enjoy water play in bath  
  Needs opportunities for play and exercise...