Developmental Milestones: Birth to Age Two

Unit 5

CE114-(add your course section)

(Name of Student)

	Birth to Age 1	Age 1 to Age 2
Physical and Motor	1. Lifts head Strategy: Place baby on tummy to encourage lifting head (3 milestones in each area with anenvironmental strategy to address each milestone)	1. Points to items Strategy: Place interesting objects in toddler’s environment (3 milestones in each area with anenvironmental strategy to address each milestone)
Social and Emotional
Cognitive and Language
Behavior

Please include a one-page discussion addressing the fact that children develop at varying rates and how biological and environmental factors influence development. Please be sure to use resources from units 1-5 to complete this project. Please delete all red type prior to submission and fill in with your original information.

Paragraph one should introduce the topic of typical development and discuss how expected developmental milestones are based on the idea that children tend to follow similar developmental patterns.

Paragraph two should discuss biological influences that may affect development and should include specific examples from what you have learned in the first five units.

Paragraph three should discuss environmental influences that may affect development and should include specific examples from what you have learned in the first five units. This paragraph should include a conclusion that summarizes your discussion.

References

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Developmental Milestones: Birth to Age Two

Birth to Age 1

Age 1 to Age 2

Physical and Motor

Raising head and bringing hand to mouth.

Strategy: engage the infant in a wide range of activities. Also, help the child to develop healthy eating habit

The child has a better response to visual cues as compared to spoken cues

Strategy: emphasize the specific activities that require the cooperation of the child

Social and Emotional

Fear unfamiliar situations or environment

Strategy: evaluate and provide support for managing fear

Discovers ability to manipulate and explore the environment

Strategy: prepare a child before a procedure

Cognitive and Language

Recognizes items and proceeds to recognize familiar persons and objects

Strategy: provide familiar objects to the child and limit the strangers caring for the child

Links words to action and is able to comprehend simple requests and directions

Strategy: use a direct approach and allow the child to make choices

Behavior

Develops stable feeding patterns and sleep

Strategy: feed the child on time

Communicates with others using words

Strategy: encourage the child to verbalize

Discussion

According to Davies (2010), child development describes the process that enables a child to undertake complex tasks as they grow. During the growth and development process, children attain developmental milestones that depend…………………

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