022 Sequence and Rate of Development

Children and young people often experience many things which have a direct impact on their development; things such as their family environment and structure, personality, hospital visits, childcare arrangements, and culture.

All children and young people develop at different rates, but the order which they advance in differs very little. Children’s development tends to progress from head to toe, inner to outer, from simple to complex and from general to specific.

This again could have a huge influence as a lot of looked after children are moved around regularly. This will effect their education enormously. Separation and attachment issues are quite often the cause of many reasons not to want to be in school. This is constantly worked on by schools to find the best way to include these children in school and to be able to give them a good standard of education.

2.1 Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of personal factors

All children will follow the same pattern of development but at different rates and will reach their milestones at different times.

It is the same with all the other areas of child development, such as social, intellectual and language some children do not go through the expected sequence of development.

There are many factors that influence a child/young persons development such as health issues, personal characteristics, motivation to learn, behaviour, sensory impairment, disability and learning difficulties. Even before birth a child needs to reach many milestones and however small or large they can cause a delay in a child’s development and in many cases are completely out of the child’s or parents control. Faulty genetics for example is a factor that is completely out of our control.

Physical development is like the process that starts in as a child and continues as you grow up, fine motor skills as well as puberty. When saroo was young he struggled with Physical development. He lived in poverty so they weren't fed the best plates of food with the best nourishment he was very small and scrawny. Plus as young as he was he would go help his mom with work. Saroo and I are on two different level while he'd be working with his mom i was probably in pre-K learning my ABC’s getting 3 meals a day with snack in between.

Physical development begins at infancy and continues into late adolescence (Thomas, 2013). This type of development mainly concentrates on general fitness and gross and fine motor skills, which involves control of various muscles and physical coordination.

The difference between sequence of development and rate of development is that a sequence of development is the order in which the development of a child will occur. The rate of development is in which speed/ time this development would happen. Child development experts have carried out a lot of research on young children to work out what most children can do at different ages and the rate at which they grow. From this research, milestones have been identified. A ‘milestone of development’ refers to the age at which most children should have reached a certain stage of development. We think about stages and sequences of development in stages:

To write this paper, I have used qualitative research and have selected two types of data collection tools. Observation has been conducted in both indoor and outdoor playtime of the child to understand his physical growth and pattern. I have also conducted a semi-structured interview with the parent of the child to gain additional knowledge and information about his physical status, daily habits, and behavior. I had planned a list of questions and also gave myself some freedom to inquire additional questions, which I think needs some light

As mentioned by Berk (2013), physical development is associated with body growth and the maturation of the nervous system. Child X displays a good level of intellectual and mental capacity through her physical activeness and responses to her friends and environment.

Child Development Theory: There were three theorists that we talked about that looked at child development. The first one was Erik Erikson, who believed that there was two main stages of children development during the first three years. The first of the two stages was Trust vs. Mistrust and the second stage was Autonomy vs. Doubt. During these stages the child developing many close relationships with those that are frequently in their life. As children are building these relationships they are also learning to become more of an individual and have more awareness of their own self. The second theorist we discussed was Jean Piaget, who believed that children develop actively by how they explore their "world". When the child has mastered that

Children develop in many ways including through physical activity, mental activity and interaction with others (Roode, 1). According to a January 2007 clinical

The development of the body is essential to the development process because a child is growing and strengthening muscles that will soon be necessary for day-to-day life. While this behavior will naturally develop on its own, environmental and experiential factors can act to slow or speed this process.