Comprehensive Report on Child Development: Transitions and Impacts

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of child development, examining the expected developmental patterns from birth to 19 years, encompassing physical, communication, and emotional growth. It explores how different aspects of development are interconnected, highlighting the potential benefits of activities like football and the challenges posed by conditions such as dyslexia. The report identifies various transitions commonly experienced by children and young people, differentiating between those universally encountered and those affecting specific groups. It further analyzes how these transitions influence children's behavior and overall development, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and responding to developmental concerns. The report underscores the impact of transitions on children's well-being, offering insights into supporting children through these crucial periods. The report also explores the role of transitions on intellectual, emotional, and physical development, by providing different examples.

ASSESSMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
The expected pattern of children and young people's development from birth to 19 years, to
include....................................................................................................................................1
Different aspects of development can affect one another. How can football help and how
would dyslexia affect it..........................................................................................................3
Transitions experienced by most children and young peoples ..............................................4
Identify the transitions experienced by most by most children..............................................4
Identify 4 transitions that only some children experienced ...................................................5
How transitions may affect children behaviour and development.........................................6
Importance of recognising and responding to concern about young people development.. .7

INTRODUCTION
Child development is defined as the physical attributions, language and emotional
changes which is being developed from process of child progress from the birth to adulthood. As
per this the child development have various aspect in which biological, psychological and
emotional changes which is being between birth and to adolescence. Their are five main type of
development such as cognitive development, social and emotional development, speech and
language development, motor skill development and various development which is helpful for
child and young person to gain more knowledge and skill as per growing age(Sayal and et. al.,
2018). In this report, the development of child based on physical, communication and emotional.
Also determination of various transition which is being followed by child and young during
phase of development.
MAIN BODY
The expected pattern of children and young people's development from birth to 19 years, to
include
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Newborn Development
0-3 months Development of some organ like head and
tail.
3-6 months Development of heart and other body parts
which is essential for functioning
6-9 months Major organs are develop like hand legs and
brain and heart parts.
9-12 months Ready to take respiration and start blinking of
eyes and movement occurs.
1-2 years Movement start to optimise and hearing
capacities is enable.
2-3 years Climb up, kick ball
3-5 years Improvements in reflexes
5-8 years Ability of decision making arises
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8-10 years Rational and faster decision making
10-13 years Sense of coordination and cooperation
13-16 years Adolescence stage, patience development
16-19 years Growth in facial hair and pubic hair
COMMUNICATION AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Newborn Development
0-3 months None
3-6 months None
6-9 months Movement will noticed
9-12 months Same as above
1-2 years Try to walk and speak
2-3 years Try to communicate with mother and family
member
3-5 years Able to communicate and interact with
people.
5-8 years Develops language skills
8-10 years Learn new words from adults
10-13 years Improved grammar skill, learning long words
13-16 years Develops good vocabulary
16-19 years Uses slang, phrases
SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DEVELOPMENT
Newborn Development
0-3 months None
3-6 months Cry when upset
6-9 months Shows excitement by waving hands as well as
legs.
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9-12 months Major emotional development takes place,
such as; baby learn roll over, sit up, crawl or
maybe walk.
1-2 years Imitates adult actions, develops responsive
nature.
2-3 years Hug and kiss parents, well-known people and
pets.
3-5 years Develops feelings
5-8 years Show jealousy towards siblings
8-10 years Start acting moody and tearful
10-13 years Puberty stage
13-16 years Develops matured body posture.
16-19 years Increase in social networks
Different aspects of development can affect one another. How can football help and how would
dyslexia affect it
Physical: As per this the child is facing any difficulty or delay then this create withdrawal from
society. In addition to this, they face difficulty while socialise with people and facing depression
and stress and also some symptoms of anxiety (Evans and et. al., 2017). They various issue
regarding with behavioural and in communication. This may lead in impairment in social
communication and devaluation of an individuals. Likewise some of:
 Child that is facing difficulties in their motor function is not good in their sport activities. Because sports activities help them to go through the fitness and provide him healthy life.
Cognitive and communication: Child and young person with their cognitive disabilities have
affect them with mentally. Cognitive disabilities has been separated in two categories (Dinh and
et. al., 2017). Functional disability and clinical disability where clinical include autism, down
syndrome and memory loss and so on. For example:
 Down syndrome is clinical disability which is faced now day by children, this affect the
development of physical attributions.
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 With this syndrome they are good understanding of language and have ability to speak
but suffer from unsaturated speech which is not proper while delivering.
 Children which is facing functional cognitive disabilities have a challenging for learning
which manually affect their social life. As per this, a child with their issue like facing
struggle in reading then child develop an feeling of failure and ineptness. This overall phenomena can affect the development of social behaviour and can affect
the child to feel low and down and generate low self esteem
Emotional, behavioural and social: Difficulties are arising with emotional and social
development which is being also create negative impact and challenges for social development
of child and person. As per this, with regular difficult can create social anxiety disorder which is
called as social phobia. For example:
 A child of young person is suffer from any type of anxiety and depression that may
generate loss of social activities, work and life (Benwell and Hopkins, 2017). This can
collapse the ability of making new friend.
 Children with eating issue may create physical and neurological disorder and also affect
children with malnutrition if this issue is persist of long time.
As per this football help to develop physical development as well team building. This
activity reduce the dyslexia in order to doing sport activity.
Transitions experienced by most children and young peoples
According to studies peoples confronts many changes in their lives, peoples, places,
everything changes even human's own body changes. People faces ongoing periods of transitions
as all things alter from how they were in the past and how they are now. A period of change from
a significant change to another or gaining experiences is known as transitions. Change is the
biggest impact on children, therefore whether positively or negatively transitions impacts on
children and young people's development that's depending on how they are supported and how
the change is managed. There are many transitions given which children and young people faces
are physical, physiological, emotional, and intellectual if these things are not handled in a correct
manner then it might give negative impact on development. Most of the peoples concern about
their sufferings and losses for e.g. the loss of a loved one, death of close ones or death of pets or
even death of a person who is famed well this can leave a negative impact on children's mind
such kind of sufferings can raise a maelstrom of emotions in a child, due to this reason they may
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be fearful about what is going to happen next or their close ones might die next and this may also
creates confusions in their mind about what has happened in this way their sadness increases and
they feel so low- confident because they blame themselves for the loss, they could feel guilty
about the loss or why they are still alive and they might feel grief and sadness even anger about
the loss (Kossarova and et. al., 2017). Such kind of emotions or griefs brings behavioural
changes in the children's life. After facing all these things child may become quiet and
withdrawn and in some case they may stop eating, they unable to sleep and at the same time they
may become aggressive too and they must learn to accept the change and also they may need
help and support to come over sufferings. Emotions, physical, intellectual, physiological these
are the areas of development that transitions an affect.
Identify the transitions experienced by most by most children
Children may experience several types of transitions may include separation,divorce of parents,
or death of the family member, new sibling, moving house, children going through these
transitions may experience sense of loss or range of emotions. As per discussed transitions is a
period of change while children growing and developing inevitably they experience different
number of transitions. Some of the significant events and transitions are common and expected
or others transitions are unpredicted and unexpected. It is very important to remember that
transitions is a process not one -off event (Ehrensaft and et. al., 2018). Making careful planning
in advance is very necessary which evaluate the meets of a child when they enter in a unfamiliar
phase. Transition which are experienced by most people include;
Moving away – children are frustrated by moving away because they feel that their favourite
places or friends are torn away from them and this could make them anxious.
Puberty- This makes children feel confused and argumentative with parents or carers.
Starting a new school- while going to any new place this could make child to feel nervous
because they do not understand how to interact with children or how to make new friends
therefore they become shy or anxious and dismissive.
Serious illness, loss of significant people or accident – many times it is seen that children may
lose their love ones or a member of their family to whom they are close, so due to this they may
react to it in a several ways lack of sleep, motivation, loss of appetite or concentration and
withdrawal.
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The birth of a new sibling – if new sibling is arriving in the family and if there is change in the
family structure and children has to accept it, they might be angry and have an increased need
for affection, they goes backwards in behaviour.
Family breakdown – There are many children who have to survive with their family changing
structure reasons behind, their parents separation or breakdown of relationship perhaps new step
in family may affects children confidence. The separation of parents can be traumatic for young
children and sometimes children's feel guilty that breakdown in relationship is their fault,children
facing these type of transition may suffer from sense of loss
Identify 4 transitions that only some children experienced
Good practice for supporting early years transitions- It is very important to support children
while going through transitions or after a period of transition, if there is absence of support or
care this may lead to negative impact on children or negative long term effects on children for
e.g. depression, inability to make meaningful relationship. Practitioners could help children
during transitions with care, helping the child to accept positively. Maintaining strong and
positive relationship between parents are the helpful keys to ease separation anxiety for both
child and parent. Be assure about learnings, journeys, progress, reports, assessment records,
observation must be transferred between care settings. Several kind of awareness are needed,
personal history is very essential but at the same time awareness of the political or historical
could be also very helpful.
Spend quality of time – It is very important for parents to spend quality of time with their
children so, that they could talk to you freely and share all the things happening In their lives, let
them express themselves whether it is talking, playing, imaginative art or play. Parents must
encourage their children's to ask questions, support them help them to ease their worries.
Story books – Story books, novels ,magazines this could be very helpful for approaching the
topic of transition for both parents and children to explore their worries.
Bereavement – The loss of loved ones, or death of family member to whom children are close or
losing their loved pets this could be traumatic to children. Four main area of transitions are
emotional,physical, intellectual, physiological.
Physical – The physical transition include a new home or care setting or moving from one
activity to another.
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Intellectual- these are the changes moving from nursery to primary school or later on moving
from primary to secondary.
How transitions may affect children behaviour and development
As discussed above transition are an important part of child life and young person's development,
the changes which comes in their lives may be gradual or sudden, they gives challenges to the
children through which they must overcome. All the transition are quite stressful for children and
young peoples, then stress resulting into effecting on children's emotions and academic
achievements (Marchiano, 2017). Some changes occurs during transition which cause tension
and this can affects emotional and behavioural development, and also there is possible impacts
on physiological and intellectual development. The transition which are faced by the children
and young peoples are emotional – if a person is affected by own personal experiences for e.g.
bereavement or separation of parents or divorce.
Physical -Moving to a new place or home, class or school.
Intellectual – this means moving from one organisation to another for e.g. from primary school
to secondary school or from school to institute.
Physiological- is a process in which people going through puberty or a long term medical
condition, the main transitions is that child's life changing school this makes children feel
insecure, anxious and nervous about the unknown, sometimes they do feel some sense of
excitement to make new friends or new experience they will exposed too.
Importance of recognising and responding to concern about young people development
While looking at young peoples development , it is necessary to recognise whether the child or
young person receiving help or support and responding to concern about assistance needed.
Whenever any issue arises the sooner young persons should be monitored and helped or
assistance given. There are few followings given which cause concern about child and young
persons development given below if the any concern left untreated then it may get more worse or
delay in help it means outcome is not good.
Physically – if child is not playing at playtime it means they are not physically active therefore
responding should be done in a professional manner according to procedure.
 Be a witnessed of what was seen or heard
 Log must be kept it should be true and accurate
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 Approach it to the class teacher once an issue is reported then easily it could be resolved
correctly and then hopefully getting the child back to life.
Speech or language – If a child talks less or does not speak to anyone then this may cause a
concern may be child is finding hard to make friends, to interact with adults.
Co-ordination – If a child or a young person is showing any signs of struggle with their gross
motor movements then this would cause a concern they are finding hard to interact with children
while playing games in the playground this statement shows social development is affected.
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CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, child and young person development Is very essential fort
the development of child with aspect to biological changes, psychological changes and various
changes which is being helpful. In this, the development help to learn various transition which
eradicate the situation of disorder and inhibit the lonely feeling which is usually happens.
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