Assess Jamie's Physical Development

It is an important part of a practitioner’s job to observe and assess children in order to establish where a child is at with regards to their development, health and well being and if they require extra support. The factors that need to be taken into account when assessing development are:

The team will look into the child’s cognitive abilities such as IQ, learning styles and adaptive behaviour. These are important as well for possible treatment

Motor Development - This include testing children for being able to jump, hop, skip, writing, coloring, catching, and block building according to Gregory (2013). Many children are tested for motor development in such ways that they don't realize they are being tested because the activities are similar to and can be used like

Physical development in children is an important area and is usually expected to happen automatically as they grow. The important areas are gross motor skills,

| Good way of seeing where the child is with their development – do they need encouragement in a certain area?

A child’s development can be measured through physical and language milestones, intellectual, emotional and social development.

The Child Study data I have gathered comes from the observation I have completed at Mission Bell Elementary School. Mission Bell Elementary School is a local school in Riverside. In the P.M preschool class there are 24 students, one teacher, and one assistant. The child I decided to observe is names Zoe. Zoe is 4 years and 10 months old. I immediately was drawn to Zoe because she had such a big personality, was very social, and smart. I am glad that I choose to observe Zoe because she was able to make my observation process smooth and easy. While observing her I had to pay close attention to her biosocial development, motor skills, cognitive skills, communication skills,

It is important to remember that each area of learning and development does not work in isolation but they are all in fact interlinked. Good quality activities will cover more than one area of development. For example, allowing children to access the outdoors will not only support their physical development, but encourage their communication and exploration of their environment. Where a child experiences a delay in one area, it is likely to limit their learning and development in the other five...a child with cerebral palsy who experiences hand-eye coordination difficulties is likely to find completing a puzzle difficult therefore hindering

A two year assessment is carried out between the ages of two and three. Parents/carers/guardians are provided with a short written summary of the child’s development in the prime areas. Within the progress

Physical activity encourages children and young people to develop all their physical skills and to practice the skills that they already have. Your role in supporting a child’s physical development will be to ensure that the child has a wide variety of experiences of being in a safe environment. Any setting should offer a wide range of equipment that can be used both indoors and out. It is considered important that children are given opportunities to develop their gross motor skills indoors as well as outdoors. Such opportunities may be provided by designated areas such as soft play area or by activities such as drama.

1.1. When assessing development some factors need to be taken into account one of these is confidentiality, this means that you will need permission from a child’s parents/carers before doing observations, also when information is wrote down about a child is important that it is kept in a safe place were only the relevant people can access it. Also making sure that information about a child is only shared with parents/carers or colleagues and professionals that have the right to know. Another factor to take into account is a child’s wishes and feelings, this means to take into account the child’s wishes when doing an observation or assessment. The child may not want to be assessed at

Provides a Systematic Method for observing children. It assists teachers, and parents in assessing individual skill development.

Because of research Physical development is part of the three prime areas of learning in the EYFS, joining Communication and Language and Personal, Social and Emotional Development, these three areas are particularly important for the learning development of the under threes, this will Secure the foundations for future success in all aspects of their life and learning. Early year’s providers and practitioners are required to enable their environments to ensure that they are giving the children quality experiences and resources to allow them to naturally learn and develop the physical skills necessary to support them throughout their lives. At our nursery we follow the EYFS guidelines which give us the approximate age and what the child should be able to do or aiming towards and what us, as practitioners should be supporting the child to achieve or help them to move on to the next stage. Providing Physical play experiences for the children such as books to explore, messy play, painting, climbing equipment and balls and other equipment to throw, kick and catch will give the children opportunities for moving and handling.

The next stage according to Schaaf’s (2015) DDDM, is to hypothesise why the child has participation challenges. We must synthesise theory, in this case SI, with assessment data to describe its effect on performance. ‘Proximal’ sensory-motor factors identified affect the child’s ‘distal’ participation-oriented outcomes (Mailloux and Schaaf 2015). The advantage of this systematic process is firstly to focus on the parent’s goals whilst targeting identified sensory-motor factors, and secondly, in creating “evidence through practice” (Schaaf 2015, p.5).

Binet and Simon compiled a collection of tests which incorporated various tasks which they deemed would highlight children’s abilities at various ages. They based the tasks on their many years of observing children, imparticularly the observations Binet had made in regard to his own two daughters.