health and social care
- Created by: Zaina305
- Created on: 29-03-17 13:03
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- Development in Infancy
- Physical
- Growth
- Increase in height
- From around 50cm at birth to around 75cm in one year
- Milk teeth
- Milk teeth appear from the age of 6 months, and fall out during childhood
- Increase in weight
- From around 3kg to around 8kg in one year
- Increase in height
- Motor skills
- Gross motor skills
- 6 months
- Rolls over, can sit if supported
- 9 months
- Crawls, sits without help, pulls up to a standing position, stands while holding on to furniture
- 1 year
- Wtands without help, walks if helped
- 15 months
- Walks without help, crawls upstairs
- 18 months
- Climbs on to chairs, walks upstairs
- 2 years
- Runs, kicks a ball
- 3 years
- Can dress and undress, rides a tricycle, stands on one foot
- 6 months
- Fine motor skills
- 6 months
- Reaches out for objects, passes objects from one hand to the other, puts object to mouth
- 9 months
- Pokes objects with finger, picks things up using finger and thumb
- 1 year
- Drops objects on purpose, pints to things
- 15 months
- Picks up small objects with pincer grip
- 18 months
- scribbles, turns pages of books
- 2 years
- Turns door knobs, eats with a spoon
- 3 years
- Threads small beads, uses a pencil gripped between thmb and first two fingers
- 6 months
- Gross motor skills
- Growth
- Intellectual
- Language skills
- Being able to name objects
- Speaking short sentences
- Asking questions
- Understanding what other people say
- Following simple commands
- Thinking skills
- Colour concepts- being able to recognise colours
- Number concepts- being able to count
- Shape concepts- being able to recognise simple shapes
- Language skills
- Emotional
- Infants show positive and negative distress from birth
- Crying- when distressed
- E.g. in pain or tired
- Screaming- when frustrated
- E.g. when hungry
- 6 months- infants smile at faces
- Later, they show pleasure
- E.g. when tickled
- Face-to-face contact with parent
- Later, they show pleasure
- From around 2 years, infants often have tantrums
- This shows that an infant is developing the expression of emotions but is not yet able to control this
- A parent who gets angry with an infant having a tantrum usually make things worse
- The best way to help an infant get out of a tantrum is to keep calm
- You can either distract the infant or move some distance away
- The best way to help an infant get out of a tantrum is to keep calm
- Crying- when distressed
- Self- concept
- It develops during infancy
- 18 months, most infants can recognise pictures of themselves
- It develops during infancy
- Attatchment
- 7 months- 1 years old= attachment happens usually to someone they see very often (parents)
- They don't like being separated, and if they are separated they may be distressed, cry and unable to be consoled by others
- They try to stay as close as possible to the attatched person. they can be clingy
- They can show a fear of strangers
- At around 3 years old, infants can put up with short separations from people they are attached to. this means they can go to nursery or creche.
- They don't like being separated, and if they are separated they may be distressed, cry and unable to be consoled by others
- They're more likely to explore, and make new friends. when they have a good atachment
- When a parent neglects the child, the infant will show they dont have a strong attachment, and they wont have bonded well
- 7 months- 1 years old= attachment happens usually to someone they see very often (parents)
- Infants show positive and negative distress from birth
- Social
- During the first few weeks of life, infants seem to prefer to look at faces, rather than at other things
- This is the beginning of social development
- At around 6 weeks, infants often smile at faces
- When attatched, the infant shows a fear of separation.
- During this stage, infants usually play by themselves, as long as a familiar person is not far away
- Towards the end of this stage, infants begin to show some interest in other children
- During the first few weeks of life, infants seem to prefer to look at faces, rather than at other things
- Physical
- Increase in weight
- From around 3kg to around 8kg in one year
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