Infant & Toddler Development

What is the definition of developmental domains?

• Initiative and curiosity

• How the body grows

• Gradual process of changes through stages

• Attachment to others

What is physical development?

• Increasing motor skills and body changes

• An emotional response to a social situation

• How children go about learning

• The skills and concepts children learn

What are fine motor skills?

• Large muscle movement

• Small muscle movement

• Changes in length and weight

• Change in thinking skills

What are gross motor skills

• Large muscle movement

• Small muscle movement

• Changes in length and weight

• Change in thinking skills

What is language development

• Increasing motor skills and body changes

• How kids go about learning

• Our emotional response to social situations

• Speaking, listening, making connections to print

What is approaches to learning?

• Increasing skills and body changes

• Our emotional response to situations

• How kids go about learning

• Speaking, listening, making connections to print

What is cognitive/intellectual development

• Our emotional response to situations

• Speaking, listening and making connections to print

• Thinking skills, problem-solving, mental processes

• Increasing motor skills and body changes

What is social/emotional development

• Our emotional response to situations and interactions with others

• Thinking skills, problem-solving and mental processes

• Speaking, listening and making connections to print

• How children go about learning

What is the best definition of growth

• change in the brain development

• change in emotional development

• change in cognitive development

• change in length and weight

What helps stimulate cognitive/intellectual development?

• watching TV

• sleeping

• laying in the car seat

• reading a simple story