Child Development Milestones: Identification, Evaluation, and Early Intervention

Learning and development
GDECE106 Assessment 2

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Identification of developmental milestones: physical, social-emotional and cognitive
development.................................................................................................................................1
Critical evaluation of the physical, social-emotional and cognitive stages.................................3
Recommendation on early intervention which is required to address evident development issue
.....................................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Development of a child refers to a qualitative transformation that results in better functioning of
organs whereas learning is an expansive process that refers to the change in nature, behaviour,
habits for getting better result and experience. Child grows and develop very rapidly in the first
five years and the areas involved in the development of a child are physical, language,
communication and emotional (Cantor, and et.al, 2021). This is also known as cognitive
development in which a children starts thinking , exploring and have the ability to figure out
things.in this report we will study about the identification of developmental milestone and will
discuss recommendation of early interventions required to address the evident developmental
issues .
MAIN BODY
Identification of developmental milestones: physical, social-emotional and cognitive
development.
Parents are very much aware about the development of their child and regularly examine that
their child is growing and learning progressively or not.as the age of children pass they cross
many milestones and those milestones should be properly identified by their parents so as to
understand them well. Parents need to track these milestones and understanding those milestones
is better for both parents and their children as well. Milestones for the development of a children
can be represent as a checklist which helps in representing what an average child can do at a
specific age (Forestier, 2019).it vary from children to children about what they do at a specific
age .for instance some children started walking at the age of one year while some can walk even
in the tenth month after their birth. Similarly there are many checklist which should be identified
about a children at a specific age in order to check the growth and development of the children.
Milestones includes physical, social, emotional and cognitive skills that children need to adapt
as they grow older. For example in starting a baby pulls up, then he started learning how to stand
and then followed by taking steps.by examine these steps the doctors and parents are able to
understand that the child is growing properly or not.
Types of child development milestones:
There are basically four types of milestones for the development of child. Most of the parents
know only about one of the milestone which is physical milestone but apart from this there are
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