Growth and Development
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- Created on: 24-01-18 11:11
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- Growth and Development
- Growth is a change in physical size and weight and is easy to measure
- Development is different as it involves learning new skills and capabilities
- Development is skills like being able to count,write and handle our own felines and emotions
- You can measure growth by height,weight and shoe size
- Development norms and milestones are the ages and stages that we can expect a child to reach at a certain point in growth and development
- Professionals work out a developmental norm and milestones by looking at data height,weight and records of thousands of children then considering the average
- Birth - can turn head and cry
- 3 to 6 months - good head control and can follow objects with eyes plays with hands
- 6 to 9 months can sit up right and makes loud noises
- 9 to 12 months should be able to stand and understand a few words and tries to us them
- 9 to 18 months able to walk and gasps small objects with thumb and index finger
- 15 to 30 months able to run around and can say several words or sentences
- 3 years play actively is able to jump and climb and starting talking a lot and ask many questions
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