Adeline's Physical Development Report

Newborn reflexes play an important role in the construction of the traction in the early stages of development because they are the first well established driving structures from which an infant may start to diversify themselves and create new schemes. Reflexive behavior is fixed; it does not allow for voluntary control to achieve a goal. However, from three months on babies begin to establish the first relationships between actions and feelings. They are very simple movements in appearance, but require the implementation of neural connections; they are a fundamental first step.

They later on learn to run and climb stairs. Babies prefer the sound of humans interacting to other sounds and from this, they quickly learn to recognise and identify their mother’s voice. Babies form their first relationship through emotional attachments with their mother or main carer. The first year of a baby’s life is a period of incredible growth, and a baby’s brain goes through critical periods during which stimulation is needed for proper development. During the babies first years, visual stimuli or verbal language is necessary for areas of the brain to grow and without this growth, a child’s vision or speaking abilities might be impaired. Infants tend to have different cries for hunger or pain, as well as making other noises. These abilities show your child is gaining communication and pre-language skills. Infants from birth to 6 months will forget about objects they cannot see however they begin to explore objects they can see and grab by putting them in their mouths. They will also follow moving objects with their eyes and look around at nearby objects. Infants in this stage will turn to look at a source of sound. These developmental milestones show a baby’s brain is developing and they are gaining new skills. From 7 to 12 months, infants also learn the idea of cause and effect, and they might repeat an action that causes a

Child and Young Person’s development Area of development | 0 – 1 year | 2 – 4 years | Physical | Reflexes –Sucking, Grasping, Drinking, Eating.Lifting head unaided.Latterly, crawling, rolling over and possibly standing or cruising.

Babies do not come out knowing how to walk or talk. Babies at first tend to control their head and nick before they learn how to move their arms and legs. When babies learn new skills they build new skills on top of old skills. When they are born, they have reflexes that help them preform everyday tasks, such as crying, kicking, and drinking milk, but some of these reflexes fade away. Seven of the most prominent reflexes babies have are sucking, head turning, rooting, grasping, stepping, Moro response, and tonic neck. The sucking reflex help the baby drink milk. The head turning reflex help the baby turn his head if there is anything bothering him. The rooting reflex help the baby find a food resource which is the mother’s breast, the rooting

During the first 6 months of life, an infant develops many perceptual skills that help them to become part of the social world. Perceptual skills are rapidly learnt by the infant through human contact and tuning into the environment around them; infants use their senses to grasp a basic understanding of their surroundings. All infants are born with innate reflexes; that help them engage with and become part of the social world these include; sucking, grasping, and looking (Leman, Bremner, Parke & Gauvain, 2012).

Physical growth refers to an increase in body size (length, height, and weight) and in the size of organs. From birth to about age 1 or 2 years, children grow quickly. The most important aspects that determine the progress of physical growth of an infant include the development of reflexes, brain changes, motor skill, sensory develop, learning a skill and also health issues. A full term baby usually born around 7-10 lbs which are considered normal weights. Infants who born before 38 weeks is a premature baby, which the baby might have a low birthweight. premature babies are alway contain a higher risk of brain damage, sickness and also death. But most premature babies can survive after they taking good care in the NICU.

A question that is continually used in many areas of child development is ,” how many of a newborn infants abilities are innate or inborn and how many have to be learned ?”.

Ages 3- 8 months. Physical development between this age is very enjoyable. At this age they are getting used to their own bodies. I noticed that they put their fingers in their mouth. They love to look at their hands and feet. I noticed that they are more to observing their hands more than anything. When they are being feed they will crab your finger. When they lay the baby on their stomachs at the age of 6 months or so they try and kick their feet and look like they want to swim. They get their hands moving and they love to be touched. They react when you are touching their finger. Mary would grab the baby's finger as she is talking with them. The look at her and smile. Around the age of 5 months to six m At this facility they start

not an infant 's nervous system is functional. Some of these reflexes last for a few weeks

Children experience physical changes by growing very fast though the rate of growth slows down as they approach puberty. Regarding body size and muscle building, this tends to slow down with time making them able to engage in physical activities for such a long time. It gets a time during

Egede Louis Ms Kate Willey November 8, 2015 PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENTS REPORT THESIS- Adolescents are at higher risk of physical and brain injury due to their still developing brains, specifically the frontal lobe.

Primitive reflexes are one of the first signs of conquering the world that can be seen in infants. Primitive reflexes are the “evolutionary past” reflexes that are both automatic and individual. They allow infants to respond adaptively to the new environment that they have been newly introduced to. (Santrock, p. 81, 2014). All infants display some sort of variations of these reflexes, preferably all of them until certain ages as they respond to the stimuli of the world. A male infant, two months old was observed to see the development of his primitive reflexes. The subject was born at 39 weeks gestation. The following paper is a further look into the subject’s primitive reflexes response, along with what the actual reflex consists of and what has been found that link the presence or lack of presence of primitive reflexes to neurological disorders.

The first stage, sensorimotor stage, talks about babies associating what they see and what they feel to make a concrete connection. For example, I often visit my dear friend, Vicky, and her one-year-old baby, Melody. Melody is at the stage that she wants to be independent and feed herself. When she is about to eat, I have noticed she presses her food down with her fingers before putting it in the mouth. I was not sure why she did that but Vicky informed me that a couple of months ago Melody had burned her mouth with potatoes that she had given her to eat. Since then, Melody pushes down on her food. This is a great example of how babies associate the senses to physical actions, as she now knows that if the food is too hot, she should not put it in her mouth.

1 - Reflexive (birth-one month): is the stage of reflex acts. The child respond to external stimuli by reflex acts and he do random movements such as sucking his finger

Physical development accounts for an immense part of the development a child receives during this stage. One of the most obvious indicators of physical develop is a child’s physical growth, which is the most drastic change during this span. A child can grow anywhere between two to three inches a year during this period. A