...Development and Child Growth ECE 205 Introduction to Child Development April 9, 2012 We talk about the descriptions of child development and growth stages and what they mean and how we look at those stages and how a child will develop and growth through these changes as well. When we talk about growth we are talking about the actual size and the physical changes that a child makes over time, We talk about how the cells in the body change and with time change and expand or enlarge which is what increases the growth and the height of a child, also their weight, the circumference of their head, hands, shoe size, arm growth, and last but not least there body shape as well. Allen, K & Martoz, L (2010) When we look at children they all develop differently some will growth mentally at a faster pace than others, and others will grow physically faster than others. Infants will become more of their surroundings and with those stages of infant growths and starting out would be the rooting and sucking reflex which is a very big part of growth because that is a part of survival and that also starts to create them to be able to turn their heads. Some of the other major growths that happen with infants when they are starting to grow would be the Moro reflex, Palamar grasp reflex, babinski reflex, and last but not least the stepping and walking reflex. As those stages start to happen then you have the cognitive development and those stages would start out by the senorimotor stage...
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...T D Module 4 Assignment: Understanding Childbirth and Newborn Development 1. Describe the stages of childbirth and the outcome of each. There are three stages of childbirth; the dilation and effacement of the cervix, the delivery of the baby, and the delivery of the placenta. During the first stage called the dilation and effacement of the cervix, the woman experiences contractions of her uterus which in return causes her cervix to widen and prepare to receive the baby. In addition, the mother experiences a brief process called transition where the contractions are at the highest level. This entire stage can last between 12 to 14 hours if it is the women’s first child or 4 to 6 hours if she has had multiple births. The second stage of childbirth also known as the delivery of the baby can last between 20 to 50 minutes depending on the woman. Within the second stage the level of contractions continue to increase and the mother feels a natural impulse to squeeze and push using her stomach muscles to force the baby down and out the birth canal. The last stage of childbirth is when the mother feels the final contraction which in return forces the placenta to detach from the walls of the uterus and out the body. This third and final stage of childbirth can last between five and 10 minutes. 2. Compare and contrast the medical interventions for childbirth. During childbirth medical professionals tend to use medical interventions in order to safely deliver the baby...
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...ECE 214 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT NUTRITION ISSUES To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/ece-214-week-1-assignment-nutrition-issues/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM ECE 214 WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT NUTRITION ISSUES Proper health and nutrition is of critical importance to the growth and development of young children, yet many American children suffer from nutrition issues. Choosing either malnutrition or obesity, address the following: 1. 1. Discuss the short- and long-term impacts of this nutrition issue on children’s growth and development. 2. Describe a specific child (within the early childhood age range of birth to age eight) who has this nutrition issue. This may be a child you know or you can describe a fictitious child. In your description, address how the child’s school day is affected by the issue and describe three specific ways the early childhood teacher addresses the issue in the school or center setting. 3. Describe three specific ways to combat this nutrition issue that involve collaboration among school, family, and community (e.g., parent education, school breakfast, and lunch programs, etc.. The paper should be three to four pages in length, in addition to the title page and the reference page. Use at least two scholarly sources in addition to your text. Your paper should also be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used...
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...of the body to perform the functions needed to survive. In infants and young children it is defined as a significant interruption in the expected rate of growth. It is important to note that the term “failure to thrive” is used to describe elderly individuals with declining health, and individuals who are losing the ability to perform the functions need to survive. Children are deemed as individuals who are failing to thrive when their rate of growth does not meet the expected growth rate for a child their age. Reasons for children’s failure to thrive can be medical, such as Anorexia or their refusal to eat from chronic medical problems, such as Renal Disease, Cancer, Congenital Heart Disease, Metabolic Disorders, liver disease, HIV infection, or gastrointestinal reflux. It can range from mild to moderate to severe in individuals with diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, autism, and fetal alcohol syndrome. Other reasons that can lead to a child’s failure to thrive can be emotional or behavioral in origin. When a child is not receiving adequate nutrition or the child has an inability to receive adequate nutrition the child is unable gain weight and grow in a healthy manner. Failure to thrive has an enormous impact on the child's physical and mental growth. If the underlying conditions are not taken care of, a child who is experiencing failure to thrive will become irritable and apathetic and my not reach developmental markers at the usual ages for most...
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...them is often portrayed in their play and their vocabulary. For this reason, it is important that teachers model attitudes and behaviors in speaking, listening, writing and reading (Machado, 2015). One way to model literacy with young children is to engage in conversation with them. According to Machado (2015), when adults engage in conversational exchanges with children they provide them with opportunities to draw conclusions, infer cause-and-effect, evaluate consequences, evaluate what is happening and much more. It is easy to respond to children’s comments with “I see” or “Wow, that’s great,” but when adults make these comments it ends the conversation, not encouraging any growth. This is why it is important for teachers to model speech by extending the conversation by providing explanations to the child for further understanding. This type of conversation is called explanatory talk (Machado, 2015). An example of explanatory talk may look something like this: “I am putting the marker caps back on the markers because if we leave them open the marker...
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...Failure to thrive syndrome (FTT) is a condition that children, imparticulary infants and toddlers, are diagnosed with when they are of below average weight and/or their rate of growth. Other than weight and growth issues, there are other concerns, such as, a lack of vocal sounds, excessive sleepiness, and irritability. While these symptoms don’t appear particularly concerning, in the long run, when the patient matures into teenagers they tend to be smaller than usual and tend not to grow as much or at all during puberty. In most cases, these children tend to survive if provided adequate supportive care, but, that is not necessarily the case in third world countries or if they are not provided with proper healthcare. It is important to note that failure to thrive does not manifest the same way in all children and every case is unique. There are two main types of failure to thrive including organic and non-organic (NOFTT). Organic FTT is caused by an underlying disease or condition that make feeding or bonding difficult. These include illnesses such as organ defect or failure, Down Syndrome, pregnancy complications and more. NOFTT is different in that it is not caused by inherent medical issues, but rather caused by familial issues including economic issues, a lack of emotional maternal bonding, and psychological abuse. NOFTT most...
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...saying this sentence a young child’s parents will be dead. Death of a parent cause short and long term effects behavioral and psycologically. The first thing a child does is learning how to cope without the parent. Mourning is the best way to adapt. A child has difficulty to cope with the parent’s death due to them not knowing how to mourn or understand death at a young age. Failure to do has an effect on growth and adjustment. The most difficult mourning process for a child is detaching the love from the deceased parent. There use to looking up at that parent to do things for them since there so young. When a child sees a parent dies it causes traumatic stress. It effects them behavioral and psychologically. The child relives the death of the parent all through out there life. When a parent is dying it is best for the child to be removed. When a child is removed it’s least likely for them to suffer from stress and the emotional attachment with the death of the parent. Almost all kids that loose a parent are hyperactivity. Hyperactivity comes from the children wanting opposite of death. When we explain death to a child you usually say mom and daddy are sleeping for a long time and not going to wake up. So the child takes it as if I sleep I’m not going to wake up so this causes an increase in hyperactivity so the child does not feel like they’re going to die. The best way for this not to happen is actually to explain death. But in some cases it shows that some children mimic...
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...Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) | Toddler Erickson’s Developmental Stage: AUTONOMY VS SHAME & DOUBT WILL TOILET TRAINING | Preschool-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: INITIATIVE VS GUILT PURPOSE EXPLORATION | School-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: INDUSTRY VS INFERIORITY COMPETENCE SCHOOL | Pattern of Health Perception and Health Management: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group. List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group. | Toddlers are ready to develop a sense of self and separate from their parents, and understanding and respecting this evolving independence is a common parental challenge. (Edelman&Mandle, 2010). Toddlers depend and rely on their parents/ caregivers for health management | Preschoolers are naturally curious And are capable of being actively involved in health promotion and prevention including oral care, bathing | School age children perceive health as it relates to the germ theory School age children are passive by asking fewer questions regarding their health. | | Parents may fall into pattern of illness care, missing the continued opportunity to receive antipatory guidance and health promotion information until preschool or school requirements bring them back in. (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2008) Parents have inaccurate...
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...For my middle childhood observation I chose a 10 year old female by the name of Mycah Landry. Just to give you a bit of a background, Mycah attends a magnet school and makes straight A’s. She is a very smart young girl. We will start off by comparing Mycah’s physical development to that of Berger’s in the text. As documented in the text “Unlike infants or adolescents, school-age children’s growth is slow and steady. Self-care is easy –from brushing their new adult teeth to dressing themselves, from making their own lunch to walking to school. In these middle years, children depend less on their families and do not yet need to cope with the body changes and impulses of adolescence. Muscles become steadily stronger.” From my observation I gathered that Mycah is a very independent individual. She is the middle child, and the only girl so she has a nurturing side to her and wants to take care of both of her brothers. She is able to dress herself, clean, and cook simple meals. Berger goes on to discuss health problems in middle childhood. Asthma was one of the topics covered in the text and coincidently, Mycah has suffered from asthma. Simply put, asthma can be defined as a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways that makes breathing difficult. Of course she uses an inhaler as needed to cope with her asthma, but according to her parents she also had to get steroid injections at one point because her asthma attacks would become more frequent. Now that her asthma is under control...
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...[pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] Immature Parents: Role Reversal Many of today's teens are forced to act like adults—because their parents won't. by Ginger Rue [pic] Mama Drama In December 2009 a California superior court awarded custody of then-seventeen-year-old Frances Bean Cobain (left) to her paternal grandmother and aunt and issued a restraining order against Frances's mother, Courtney Love (right). Photo: Adam Nemser/photolink.net/Newscom After a tough first year at an Ivy League university, 20-year-old Sarah was looking forward to relaxing over the summer. Unfortunately, her parents made that impossible. "My dad's an alcoholic, and my mom's addicted to dating alcoholics," the Stanford, California, native says. "They're divorced, and my dad is broke, so I had to help him get government assistance. Meanwhile, I needed to deal with my mom's drama about the terrible guys she chooses." Between running her mom's dating life and managing her dad's finances, Sarah was exhausted by summer's end—and relieved to return to college thousands of miles away. "I can't do much from here, so I can't feel guilty," she says. These days countless teens like Sarah, who are coping with irresponsible parents, are forced to step in as the mature party. "When parents refuse to act like adults, it creates a power vacuum. Someone has to fill that space, and most often it's the teen son or daughter...
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...Keeping track of children’s progress and growth over time are critical tasks for teachers. In Montessori, continual assessment is almost innately built into the essential functioning of an authentic classroom. The daily use of observation combined with the ability of the learning materials to reveal a child’s understanding and rigorous record keeping enable Montessori teachers to closely follow their students’ development. In the classroom, there are also additional tools such as daily recording of activities by the child and regular one-on -one conferences with each child that contribute to the teacher’s effort to assess every child’s progress. There are several different ways in which we specifically keep records in our classroom. Record keeping is of vital important to ensure that the classroom runs smoothly, and that all the children are accounted for, and that they are kept safe. We use record keeping to assess the children’s development, as well as to keep the classroom functioning efficiently. There are several different methods in which we employ to ensure that the classroom is kept functioning efficiently and optimally. These include Montessori Records Express (MRX), Observation forms, daily sheets, attendance rosters, accident/incident forms, and the social media platform Instagram. Montessori Records Express is software that we use in our classroom that was designed to aid in the record-keeping process to make it as painless as possible. Since it can be a bit...
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...As a nurse who has always taken care of adult patients and has not yet experienced mother-hood, appropriately assessing and treating pediatric patients has become very challenging for me. I have lived with my 3-year-old nephew for a little over a year now and I am gaining first- hand insight on the developmental milestones he has reached specifically by age. One key point Duderstadt (2014, p.24) mentions that I believe all healthcare providers should remember while assessing pediatric patients is that “each child achieves developmental milestones at his or her own pace, although the sequence of developmental milestones is generally incremental and stepwise in all children.” There is no doubt that I will face a parent that is concerned their...
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...For young children with disabilities, it is important for the proper identification, individualized program planning, and related support to be implemented. This process is crucial to the success of any child with a disability. Families must be included in this process (Yell, 2012). Teachers should find other ways to support families, as well. Children with hearing and vision impairments can be first observed in the sensorimotor stage of development. Children with vision impairment are commonly observed failing to reach for an object. Hooper and Umansky (2014) suggest that reaching for or obtaining an object that makes sound does not occur until the second year for children with vision impairments (Hooper and Umansky, 2014). For children...
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...families and their communities. I had previously read about how there was a discrimination complaint filed against Canada that was in violation of the Canadian Human Rights Act, that Canada provides significantly less funding for family and child services on reserves than that provided off reserves, but never knew much about the case so I was glad to be able to attend the event and gain more knowledge on the issue. In 2007, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) filed a human rights complaint alleging that the inequitable funding of child welfare services on First Nations reserves amounts to discrimination on the basis of race and national or ethnic origin, contrary to Section 5 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, RCS 1985, c. H-6 (the Act). Some of the current inequities in Canada are that almost half of all children in care under the age of 14 are Aboriginal. The placement of Aboriginal children in informal care with relatives is 11.4 times the rate for non-Aboriginal children, and 12.4 times the rate of non-Aboriginal children for formal placement in the child welfare system. In 2008 and 2011 The Auditor General of Canada confirmed that the federal government’s provision of First Nations child and family services and elementary and secondary education is flawed and inequitable. These inequities have contributed to First Nations children and youth being denied or delayed receipt of public services that are available to other Canadian...
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...spend most time away from home. Describing three different kinds of non-parental childcare and analyze the influences it may have in a child’s psychological, social and cognitive development. With today’s economy, many parents cannot afford childcare so they seeking for at homecare with a family member. The child may or may not being getting the same behavior or activities that a school or day care will provides. There are some studies about children care that indicated a childcare center they are more likely would do better when they start school and develops their social skills with others. Social skills is a main factor for a child development, they need to have the knowledge of what is acceptable and what is not. Many parents do feel that they children are a lot safer with a family member than with a person they do not know much about. This is an ideal situation because someone they trust with reduces the stress of leaving the child provides the non-parental care. Thinking about the real tics of the situation this relative or friend, is probably not licensed, nor has received any type of formal childcare training. The drastically decreases the probability of the child being privy to developmentally appropriates or...
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