Development.docx

**[Normal Development in a Child's Brain]** Functional immaturity of human infant fosters dependency in child and nurturing by parents and society Development arises from **3 interrelated processes**: **Neurological devices** and **sensory devices** control effector units = alter what we do and a...

**[Normal Development in a Child's Brain]** Functional immaturity of human infant fosters dependency in child and nurturing by parents and society Development arises from **3 interrelated processes**: **Neurological devices** and **sensory devices** control effector units = alter what we do and affects our environmental input and changes our sensory devices 1. **Describe how neurodevelopment can be divides into 4 stages and list key developmental milestones in each of the 4 stages** **Gross motor** -- holds head up, turn over, sits, crawls, walks, runs, hops **Fine motor/vision** -- fixes, fixes and follows, grasps, pincer grip, uses pencil **Hearing/speech/language** -- stills to bell, turns to sound, knows name, babbles, words, words together **Social**- smile, stranger wariness, feeds self, toilet trained, dress self **Developmental milestones and age**  **Human abilities at birth:** Breathe Suck and swallow Knows when hungry, bladder full, rectum full Makes sound to respond to pain Maintain BP, blood CO~2~ **Human abilities at 6 weeks:** Smile Turn head to track objects Responds to sounds **Human abilities at 1 year:** First words Knows friends and strangers Mobile Advancing hand function 2. **Describe the structural and developmental changes in the brain and peripheral nervous system in foetal life and first year of life** **Development is: Innate** -- naturally in built **Incremental** -- one after the other **Progressive** -- should never lose skill **Responsive** to stimuli **Interdependent** -- one area of development affects others