CHCECE017 Foster the holistic development and wellbeing of the child in early childhood
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GayaniLokubalasooriyage 101052879Foster the holistic development in early childhood1
GayaniLokubalasooriyage 101052879Table of ContentsIntroduction................................................................................................................................3Cognitive development..............................................................................................................40-15 months............................................................................................................................42-3 years.................................................................................................................................44-5 years.................................................................................................................................4Social, emotional and psychological development....................................................................40-15 months............................................................................................................................52-3 years.................................................................................................................................54-5 years.................................................................................................................................5Communication development....................................................................................................50-15 months............................................................................................................................52-3 years.................................................................................................................................64-5 years.................................................................................................................................6Physical development.................................................................................................................6Gross motor development.......................................................................................................6Fine motor development.........................................................................................................6Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8References..................................................................................................................................92
GayaniLokubalasooriyage 101052879IntroductionThis report is based on the holistic development during childhood. This report is divided intofour major developments for the well-being of childhood i.e. cognitive development, socialand emotional development, communication development and physical development. Thesefour developments are classified into three stages. The first stage is related to the age from 0-15 months then the second stage is from 2-3 years and the third stage is from 4-5 years. Thisreport provides a detailed description of developments in child during the period of 0-5 yearsof age.3
GayaniLokubalasooriyage 101052879Cognitive developmentCognitive development is the development in the thinking capacity of the child as he or shegrows.We cannot clearly define the thinking power of the child because it includes reasoning,remembering, perception, interpretation, planning and many more things. Cognitivedevelopment determines the changes in the thinking of child as he or she grows.The firstcognitive theory was developed by Jean Piaget. Piaget described principles of change whichinclude Qualitative change which means the thinking of children is differs as per their age.Stable sequence: the stages of life cycle are same for all the human beings. Broadapplicability: The thinking about anything spread through content and topic areas.Piaget alsoexplained three principles that remain constant in the whole life of a person. First isaccommodation which means people gather the current knowledge as a new experience.Second is assimilation. In case of assimilation, a person converts the information in his or herown language to understand the information properly (Braithwaite, et al., 2017). The thirdprinciple is equilibrium. For maintaining consistency in understanding it is necessary to makea balance between assimilation and accommodation. Cognitive means recognizing orconceptualising something. According to EYLF children develop creativity and curiosity byengaging variety of experience. For example, in my last placement children were given artactivity which they modified it to various way of creating so many things.0-15 months: At the time of birth, the schema for the child is licking. The child is only awareabout sucking. Piaget used the word schema as a way of organizing knowledge.During thisperiod of childhood, the children learns the common words like “Mama”, “No”, “Dada” etc.15-year-old children are even able to understand what we are saying to them. They willunderstand the commands given by their parents.A 12 or 13 month old child is unaware aboutthe use of things around them. For example: the child will use the spoon as a toy by bangingthe spoon on different things but a 15 months old child is able to understand that the spoon is4
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