Understanding Child and Young Person Developement.

Unit 022 – Understanding child and young person developement.
1.1 Explain the sequence and rate of each aspect of debelopement from birth to 19 years.
Growth and development is considered in five stages:
  Infancy - from birth to three years old
  Childhood – from four to seven years
  Puberty – from eight to twelve years
  Adolescence – from thirteen to sixteen years

Birth to one year
New-born babies can:
    see faces as fuzzy shapes
  grasp an object that has touched the palm of their hand
  turn their head to look for a nipple or teat if their cheek is touched
  suck and swallow
    try to make stepping movements if they are   held upright with their feet on a firm surface
  startle in response to a sudden sound or bright light
  stretch their arms suddenly and then bring them in if they feel they   are falling
  recognise their mother’s voice and smell
  cry when they are hungry, in pain, need feeding, changing or just cuddling.  
One to three years
By their first birthday, babies can:
 move around, either by crawling or shuffling or some may be standing with support and a small number walking alone
 sit up alone and feed themselves, at   least with their fingers
 use their hands skilfully to move and   arrange objects including dropping   things on the floor and looking to see where they are
 wave ‘bye bye’ and point at things with their fingers
 communicate by babbling and saying two syllable words like ‘dada’
 understand the world around them
 know who their main carers are and cry if they are left with someone they do not know.
Third birthday
By their third birthday, children can:
 run, climb and pedal a tricycle
 walk upstairs on alternate feet and walk on tiptoe
 use the toilet alone
 talk clearly so anyone can understand them
 tell the difference between boys and girls
 sometimes play co-operatively with other children
 build a tower of nine bricks and build a bridge with bricks
 undo buttons... [continues]

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