Know the signs, Act Early

The reason why tracking children’s development in your care is important

• To find out if a child’s development is on track

• To find out if a child might have a developmental delay

• Both

About how many children worldwide have developmental disabilities?

1 in 50

• 1 in 17

• 1 in 6

• 1 in 50

Monitoring children’s development includes which of the following?

• Observing children’s milestones

• Using a developmental milestone checklist or developmental screening tool

• Sharing observations with parents and encouraging them to take action if concerned

• All the above

Skills such as taking a first step, smiling for the first time, and waving “bye-bye” are examples of developmental milestones.

True

False

• True

• False

The best way to monitor children’s development is to track their:

• Calorie intake

• Developmental milestones

• Head circumference

A child not reaching milestones at the expected ages may indicate:

• Child is on track developmentally

• Child may need extra support and services

At what age can we teach kids to write their names?

• 4 years old

• 5 years old

• 6 years old

Making different sounds like “mamamama” and “babababa” is a milestone in which domain?

Social/emotional

Cognitive

Language/Communication

Movement/Physical

• Social/emotional

• Cognitive

• Language/

  Communication

• Movement/Physical

Using milestone checklists in developmental monitoring will help you:

• become a better observer of the development of children in your care;

• better understand the developmental milestones children should reach at certain ages;

• more easily pinpoint potential developmental concerns for a child;

• • become a better observer of the development of children in your care;

• • better understand the developmental milestones children should reach at certain ages;

• • more easily pinpoint potential developmental concerns for a child;

• All of the above