...Development and Child Growth ECE 205 Introduction to Child Development April 9, 2012 We talk about the descriptions of child development and growth stages and what they mean and how we look at those stages and how a child will develop and growth through these changes as well. When we talk about growth we are talking about the actual size and the physical changes that a child makes over time, We talk about how the cells in the body change and with time change and expand or enlarge which is what increases the growth and the height of a child, also their weight, the circumference of their head, hands, shoe size, arm growth, and last but not least there body shape as well. Allen, K & Martoz, L (2010) When we look at children they all develop differently some will growth mentally at a faster pace than others, and others will grow physically faster than others. Infants will become more of their surroundings and with those stages of infant growths and starting out would be the rooting and sucking reflex which is a very big part of growth because that is a part of survival and that also starts to create them to be able to turn their heads. Some of the other major growths that happen with infants when they are starting to grow would be the Moro reflex, Palamar grasp reflex, babinski reflex, and last but not least the stepping and walking reflex. As those stages start to happen then you have the cognitive development and those stages would start out by the senorimotor stage...
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...T D Module 4 Assignment: Understanding Childbirth and Newborn Development 1. Describe the stages of childbirth and the outcome of each. There are three stages of childbirth; the dilation and effacement of the cervix, the delivery of the baby, and the delivery of the placenta. During the first stage called the dilation and effacement of the cervix, the woman experiences contractions of her uterus which in return causes her cervix to widen and prepare to receive the baby. In addition, the mother experiences a brief process called transition where the contractions are at the highest level. This entire stage can last between 12 to 14 hours if it is the women’s first child or 4 to 6 hours if she has had multiple births. The second stage of childbirth also known as the delivery of the baby can last between 20 to 50 minutes depending on the woman. Within the second stage the level of contractions continue to increase and the mother feels a natural impulse to squeeze and push using her stomach muscles to force the baby down and out the birth canal. The last stage of childbirth is when the mother feels the final contraction which in return forces the placenta to detach from the walls of the uterus and out the body. This third and final stage of childbirth can last between five and 10 minutes. 2. Compare and contrast the medical interventions for childbirth. During childbirth medical professionals tend to use medical interventions in order to safely deliver the baby...
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...ECE 214 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT NUTRITION ISSUES To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/ece-214-week-1-assignment-nutrition-issues/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ECE 214 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT NUTRITION ISSUES Proper health and nutrition is of critical importance to the growth and development of young children, yet many American children suffer from nutrition issues. Choosing either malnutrition or obesity, address the following: 1. 1. Discuss the short- and long-term impacts of this nutrition issue on children’s growth and development. 2. Describe a specific child (within the early childhood age range of birth to age eight) who has this nutrition issue. This may be a child you know or you can describe a fictitious child. In your description, address how the child’s school day is affected by the issue and describe three specific ways the early childhood teacher addresses the issue in the school or center setting. 3. Describe three specific ways to combat this nutrition issue that involve collaboration among school, family, and community (e.g., parent education, school breakfast, and lunch programs, etc.. The paper should be three to four pages in length, in addition to the title page and the reference page. Use at least two scholarly sources in addition to your text. Your paper should also be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used...
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...working parents who are compelled to leave their child at a daycare center. For such children, these centers become their first school to learn and grasp the basic concepts of life as they step into a new world where they get acquainted with other children. Studies have shown that early years in a child's life are very important for his mental development so he becomes agile. As a result, whatever they learn, whatever they explore, whatever they accept and feel in the first few years of their life affect their overall growth and individuality. Therefore, it is very crucial to for a...
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...and remains today a broad and multifaceted label referring, in essence, to the inability of a child to flourish and grow due to a wide range of either external or internal factors. Failure to thrive (FTT) can be a somewhat ambiguous and difficult to define term used to address young children with abnormal or insufficient growth patterns. One standardized guideline used in defining FTT is a weight that falls below the 5th percentile (Steward, 2001), although multiple factors must be considered in labelling a child as FTT. Historically, the label of FTT has been divided into two categories: organic failure to thrive, and nonorganic failure to thrive (NFTT). The differentiation refers to the suspected...
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...of the body to perform the functions needed to survive. In infants and young children it is defined as a significant interruption in the expected rate of growth. It is important to note that the term “failure to thrive” is used to describe elderly individuals with declining health, and individuals who are losing the ability to perform the functions need to survive. Children are deemed as individuals who are failing to thrive when their rate of growth does not meet the expected growth rate for a child their age. Reasons for children’s failure to thrive can be medical, such as Anorexia or their refusal to eat from chronic medical problems, such as Renal Disease, Cancer, Congenital Heart Disease, Metabolic Disorders, liver disease, HIV infection, or gastrointestinal reflux. It can range from mild to moderate to severe in individuals with diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, autism, and fetal alcohol syndrome. Other reasons that can lead to a child’s failure to thrive can be emotional or behavioral in origin. When a child is not receiving adequate nutrition or the child has an inability to receive adequate nutrition the child is unable gain weight and grow in a healthy manner. Failure to thrive has an enormous impact on the child's physical and mental growth. If the underlying conditions are not taken care of, a child who is experiencing failure to thrive will become irritable and apathetic and my not reach developmental markers at the usual ages for most...
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...them is often portrayed in their play and their vocabulary. For this reason, it is important that teachers model attitudes and behaviors in speaking, listening, writing and reading (Machado, 2015). One way to model literacy with young children is to engage in conversation with them. According to Machado (2015), when adults engage in conversational exchanges with children they provide them with opportunities to draw conclusions, infer cause-and-effect, evaluate consequences, evaluate what is happening and much more. It is easy to respond to children’s comments with “I see” or “Wow, that’s great,” but when adults make these comments it ends the conversation, not encouraging any growth. This is why it is important for teachers to model speech by extending the conversation by providing explanations to the child for further understanding. This type of conversation is called explanatory talk (Machado, 2015). An example of explanatory talk may look something like this: “I am putting the marker caps back on the markers because if we leave them open the marker...
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...For my middle childhood observation I chose a 10 year old female by the name of Mycah Landry. Just to give you a bit of a background, Mycah attends a magnet school and makes straight A’s. She is a very smart young girl. We will start off by comparing Mycah’s physical development to that of Berger’s in the text. As documented in the text “Unlike infants or adolescents, school-age children’s growth is slow and steady. Self-care is easy –from brushing their new adult teeth to dressing themselves, from making their own lunch to walking to school. In these middle years, children depend less on their families and do not yet need to cope with the body changes and impulses of adolescence. Muscles become steadily stronger.” From my observation I gathered that Mycah is a very independent individual. She is the middle child, and the only girl so she has a nurturing side to her and wants to take care of both of her brothers. She is able to dress herself, clean, and cook simple meals. Berger goes on to discuss health problems in middle childhood. Asthma was one of the topics covered in the text and coincidently, Mycah has suffered from asthma. Simply put, asthma can be defined as a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways that makes breathing difficult. Of course she uses an inhaler as needed to cope with her asthma, but according to her parents she also had to get steroid injections at one point because her asthma attacks would become more frequent. Now that her asthma is under control...
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...Failure to thrive syndrome (FTT) is a condition that children, imparticulary infants and toddlers, are diagnosed with when they are of below average weight and/or their rate of growth. Other than weight and growth issues, there are other concerns, such as, a lack of vocal sounds, excessive sleepiness, and irritability. While these symptoms don’t appear particularly concerning, in the long run, when the patient matures into teenagers they tend to be smaller than usual and tend not to grow as much or at all during puberty. In most cases, these children tend to survive if provided adequate supportive care, but, that is not necessarily the case in third world countries or if they are not provided with proper healthcare. It is important to note that failure to thrive does not manifest the same way in all children and every case is unique. There are two main types of failure to thrive including organic and non-organic (NOFTT). Organic FTT is caused by an underlying disease or condition that make feeding or bonding difficult. These include illnesses such as organ defect or failure, Down Syndrome, pregnancy complications and more. NOFTT is different in that it is not caused by inherent medical issues, but rather caused by familial issues including economic issues, a lack of emotional maternal bonding, and psychological abuse. NOFTT most...
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...spend most time away from home. Describing three different kinds of non-parental childcare and analyze the influences it may have in a child’s psychological, social and cognitive development. With today’s economy, many parents cannot afford childcare so they seeking for at homecare with a family member. The child may or may not being getting the same behavior or activities that a school or day care will provides. There are some studies about children care that indicated a childcare center they are more likely would do better when they start school and develops their social skills with others. Social skills is a main factor for a child development, they need to have the knowledge of what is acceptable and what is not. Many parents do feel that they children are a lot safer with a family member than with a person they do not know much about. This is an ideal situation because someone they trust with reduces the stress of leaving the child provides the non-parental care. Thinking about the real tics of the situation this relative or friend, is probably not licensed, nor has received any type of formal childcare training. The drastically decreases the probability of the child being privy to developmentally appropriates or...
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...multi-step process of gathering data, determining goals for instruction, and then implementing those goals into our work with children. For this Final Project, you are asked to do the first two steps of this process. You will develop a partial portfolio for the child you observed and, with that information, you will develop instructional goals for that child. This assignment has three parts: The first part of this assignment requires you to develop a mission statement. Using your completed Assessment Purpose KWL Chart from the Week Five Reflection Journal, create your mission statement outlining: The purpose of assessment Your plan for including assessment when working with children How you can use assessment to document children’s work How you will use children’s interests and ideas when assessing. This statement should also include your position on working with children with developmental delays. This mission statement will be the introduction to this Final Project. The second part of this assignment requires you to create a partial portfolio for the child you have been working with. Remember, you must maintain the confidentiality of the child. For this partial portfolio: You will need to observe the child you have been working with using the document “Developmental Checklists Birth to Five” from...
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...special sensibility which a creature in its infantile state, while it is still in a process of evolution". ( Montessori, 1966, p38) Maria Montessori believed that during first few years of life its very easy for a child to learn without an effort that later on will be more difficult such as language. She observed that there is an inner passion and urge to absorbed everything from their environment. Sensitive periods are characterized by behaviours such as an activity being irresistible for a child once he/ she starts it. Once the sensitive period is over, the sensibility disappears because the brain has progressed to a time when specific information is absorbed. In each period children are especially sensitive to a specific characteristic in his/her environment. They have this "inner power horme" (Montessori, 1966) which enables them to choose and explore necessary objects and relationships from their environment, for their intellectual growth. All of those periods are very specific and unique for a child development. If he/she will not be able to satisfy his/her needs during those periods the opportunity " of a natural conquest is lost and its lost for good" (Montessori, 1966, p.39) These periods are transitory and it last only for as long as is necessary for a child to accomplish a particular stage of development. There is three stages of development identified by Montessori are infancy...
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...saying this sentence a young child’s parents will be dead. Death of a parent cause short and long term effects behavioral and psycologically. The first thing a child does is learning how to cope without the parent. Mourning is the best way to adapt. A child has difficulty to cope with the parent’s death due to them not knowing how to mourn or understand death at a young age. Failure to do has an effect on growth and adjustment. The most difficult mourning process for a child is detaching the love from the deceased parent. There use to looking up at that parent to do things for them since there so young. When a child sees a parent dies it causes traumatic stress. It effects them behavioral and psychologically. The child relives the death of the parent all through out there life. When a parent is dying it is best for the child to be removed. When a child is removed it’s least likely for them to suffer from stress and the emotional attachment with the death of the parent. Almost all kids that loose a parent are hyperactivity. Hyperactivity comes from the children wanting opposite of death. When we explain death to a child you usually say mom and daddy are sleeping for a long time and not going to wake up. So the child takes it as if I sleep I’m not going to wake up so this causes an increase in hyperactivity so the child does not feel like they’re going to die. The best way for this not to happen is actually to explain death. But in some cases it shows that some children mimic...
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...development and growth, training in the policies and guidelines of the childcare facility, skills to implement developmentally appropriate practices, age appropriate curriculum and effective communication skills to build and maintain relationships with the families in order to ensure a well-run, purposeful high-quality program responsive to participant’s needs. High quality standards in early education for children are met with implementing these six major goals. The first goal is to maximize the health status of the child. I would implement this goal by keeping the environment and the toys that the children use clean and sanitized daily. I would also discuss with parents care routines such as brushing and flossing and suitable times for bed to maintain the well-being of their child at home. The second goal is minimizing risks. Posting emergency procedures and practicing them periodically is what I would do to minimize risks of panics in an actual emergency. The third goal is using education as a tool. I would access community resources such as dentists and doctors to come and speak with the children about their health and nutrition. I would also send home information pamphlets and websites that will encourage good eating habits at home. Recognizing the importance of guidelines is the fourth goal. To enforce this regulation required by law I would make sure that there is proper supervision for the children by providing sufficient and safe staff to child ratio. Making...
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...There are many books on what to expect when raising a child but there is no definite rule book on how to raise a child. This is because raising a child is a different and unique experience for each parent depending on social influences, environmental circumstances, religion, culture, and traditions. One of the many decisions new parents have to make is bedtime routines, sleeping arrangements, and choosing between breast-feeding vs. bottle-feeding. Parents often receive advise from friends, family, and media but ultimately the choice is up to the parents on what habits they want to form with their infant. These decisions may be made based on the parents’ schedule, what is more convenient, or what they feel best is for the baby’s growth. While researching what preferences parents have I read the article titled, “Cultural Variations in Infants’ Sleeping Arrangements:...
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