Motor development and language acquisitions contribute to the development of attachment and are very crucial to an infant undergoing human development. Attachment grows throughout infancy because their learning from our environment and it builds by adapting to environment language skills are not as advanced but continual practice with the caregiver is crucial because it advances an infants trust. In the documentary Charles Nelson proves early experiences influences the source of human development and attachment, he finds that language is not only limited to words, faces play an extreme role in communication. An Astounding fact that a infant can recognize their mother by her facial arts even if the face is distorted, through seeing a face everyday a baby forms the sudden understanding of expression, and essential part of communication. A child needs a face to understand intentions/motivations and the ability to process information in faces are essential to survival and correlate to attachment Engaging in human contact will enhance an infant and their natural ability of leaning.
Talking to an infant or making sounds with an upbeat tone and exaggerated facial expressions causes connection between them and the caregiver. Exciting the senses by allowing an infant to explore different textures, exposure to different sights/smells helps to activate motor development. Exposure to toys and the ability to sit up and retrieve or grasp different objects increases skills causing crawling, hoping, sliding to different areas. Infant’s need a caregiver at all times to spark developmental skills in language and motor areas if not early human development and attachment could be tarnished eternally.
Parental neglect or abuse inhibit motor, language, and emotional development of a one year old because if deprived of these will be permanently disabled, being that babies have a learned behavior if deprived of sensory experience exercise use of practice they will lose all functions to survival. In the documentary Niley was blocked of certain light and exposure to one eye causing an immediate cataract if not operated on immediately by a doctor she would have been disabled in one eye for the rest of her life. Also if expression through a face is not fluctuated an infant will have social disorders and even autism like symptoms, children with autism are not good with recognizing faces generally or at recognizing facial emotion; if a child cannot read a face trust is deprived .Charles Nelson has worked with children in orphanages in Romania that hardly see faces because there are no caregivers in the first year of life they are lying on their backs in cribs staring at the ceiling, face processing has been derailed because they don’t have normal input.
A major component of emotional and psychosocial development is attachment. Children who have experienced neglect have been found to demonstrate higher frequencies of insecure, anxious, and avoidant attachments with their primary caregivers than non maltreated children. In fact, studies have demonstrated that 70 to 100 percent of maltreated infants form insecure attachments with their caregivers. Often, emotionally neglected children have learned from their relationships with their primary caregivers that they will not be able to have their needs met by others. This may cause a child not to try to solicit warmth or help from others. There are also language problems associated with neglect. In order for babies to learn language, they need to hear numerous repetitions of sounds before they can begin making sounds and eventually saying words and sentences. Language development may be delayed if the parent or other caregiver does not provide the necessary verbal interaction with the child. Research shows that neglected children are more likely to have cognitive deficits and severe academic and developmental delays when compared with non-neglected children. When neglected children enter school, they may suffer from both intellectual and social disadvantages that cause them to become frustrated and fall behind. A medical condition associated with child neglect is "failure to thrive," which can be defined as "children whose growth deviates significantly from the norms for their age and gender. This condition typically occurs in infants and toddlers under the age of 2 years. Failure to thrive can be manifested as significant growth delays, as well as poor muscle tone, unhappy or minimal facial, expressions decreased vocalizations and general unresponsiveness.