The Developmental Domains

Running Head: Developmental Domains 1
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Developmental domains
All the developmental domains are important in all children, including those with special
needs. All-Round development is important, which is determined by children’s caregivers at an
early age. The experiences that children go through in the early years affect the children’s health,
wellbeing, and the skills they develop to cope with the rest stages of their life. Parents /carers
should ensure that they give care and safely nurture children to enable babies to gain optimal
development. They should pay attention to what the baby needs to utmost understand their
insinuations. Children experience rapid growth and learning and development in five broad
areas. These areas are physical development, social, cognitive, language, and emotional
development. It is important for these areas to be noted because they guide and direct parenting.
Child development problems should be reported to health care providers when noted (Ross,
2017).
At three months, Cognitive development in children is that they can recognize the voices
of their parents, which they start identifying after birth and starts discovering their voices.
Children can enjoy making eye contact with people by watching face intently, studies it, and
smiles. Language development involves crying away to communicate their needs, and they coo
and gurgle with happiness when given attention. For adaptive development, toddler startles for
noise and timely response to sound, they can respond to pain, and they easily recognize their
mother’s breast milk. Social and emotional development involves developing a social smile,
maintaining eye contact with the caregiver, and start enjoying cuddling by the parent. Physical
development is indicated by children stretching their legs and arms, lifting their heads when
lying down on their tummies, Children can search for movements and sounds by lifting their

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heads, they can roll on one side, they discover their feet and leg during the process, hold objects
and at the same time use their eyes to follow moving objects.
At three to six months, children develop an interest in the surrounding environment, and
they start showing their interest to play and recognize the faces that are familiar ("Developmental
Milestones: Parent Views," 2019). Their language development involves giving back a smile to
respond to speech, enjoys social interaction, laughs, and squeals when happy and start
recognizing the familiar faces. Their adaptive skills involve the exploration of objects using their
mouths, use their taste buds to differentiate food and drinks, and develop more skills to track
moving objects around them. Social and emotional development for these children is that they
can easily respond to social stimuli; they use facial expressions to communicate and enjoy
crying. For physical development, these children can raise their heads to about 90 degrees, and
they can sit upright via support and can as well stand with the parent’s help. Developments at six
to twelve months are that children start responding to their names and even responds to words,
mostly double syllable words. They can repeat sounds articulated, can mimic simple actions by
other people or children, and show their emotions on their likes and dislikes. These children can
sit on their own with no help, can stand firmly when held, can drink water from lidless cups; they
like being the Centre of attention and enjoy crawling and walking around. They also respond to
stranger's faces; they can throw toys on purpose, play games, and responds to social stimuli.
At twelve to twenty-four months, children have the energy of exploring everything, and
they feed themselves using fingers or spoons, some may like climbing, and can walk alone
upstairs step by step. These children can speak in short phrases, and they can understand basic
sentences, name book pictures, and they enjoy being the center of attention. Their memory is
short and may do the opposite of what they are instructed not to. They hold cups and drinks,