Child Development Milestones

There is a great amount of brain, physical and motor growth in the infant through age two, and the environment plays a large role in development. View the following video and complete the unit readings, then discuss the case scenarios.

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You are an early childhood provider working with a new employee who has no experience working with infants and toddlers. You are trying to explain to her how physical and motor development are inter-related with all developmental domains and how a nurturing environment can influence genetics.

Give this employee specific examples of how the brain, physical and motor development of infants and toddlers extends their ability to interact with people and objects in the environment.
In addition, give examples of how delayed physical and motor growth can impede development in other domains. Describe how you, as a childhood professional, can address this.

What is universal and what is cultural in the development of motor skills and why?

Share strategies that enhance and encourage the physical and motor development of the infant and toddler.

What suggestions would you have for a new parent who wants to facilitate motor development at home through play?

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According to Plomin, DeFries & Fulker (2006), infancy is a wondrous and unique time of life. Early childhood providers understand the rapid growth that takes place during the earliest years of a child. For a new employee tasked with the responsibility of working with toddlers and infants, there is need for him or her to comprehend the relationship between physical and mental developments.
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