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Child Care & Development

Child Care & Development. Infants. Infant Mobility. Motor Development – the use and control over muscles Large muscles = gross motor skills Small muscles = fine motor skills Locomotion – the ability for an infant to move from place to place Crawling, creeping, and cruising.

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Child Care & Development

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  1. Child Care & Development Infants

  2. Infant Mobility • Motor Development – the use and control over muscles • Large muscles = gross motor skills • Small muscles = fine motor skills • Locomotion – the ability for an infant to move from place to place • Crawling, creeping, and cruising

  3. Infant Speech and Learning • Intellectual Development – how infants learn, what they learn, and how they express what they know through language or react to stimuli • Stimuli – sounds, light, other people • 3 Months • Can tell the difference between the sounds mama and dada • 3-6 Months • Prefer the colors red and blue

  4. Infant Speech and Learning • Cognition – the act or process of knowing or understanding that gives meaning to perceptions • Sensorimotor Stage – Piaget’s first stage of mental development where an uses infant senses and motor skills to learn and communicate • 12 Months (1 year) • Piaget believes infants apply all of their learning to solve problems

  5. Infant Speech and Learning • Babbling – the sounds infants make, such as ba, da, and ga • Reduplication babbling – repeating the same syllable over and over, such as da, da, da, da… • Active vocabulary – words used when talking or writing • Passive vocabulary – words understood, but not said

  6. Infant Social-Emotional Development • Social-emotional Development – Showing feelings through emotions, mood/disposition, and learning to interact in social groups • Disposition (or temperament) – the tendency to react in a certain way, such as being happy or fussy • Easy, slow to warm up, and difficult

  7. Infant Social-Emotional Development • Trust Vs. Mistrust – Erikson’s stage of personality development dealing with infants • Fear of the Unknown – Strangers, sudden movement, new objects, new sounds • Separation Anxiety – the first experience of anxiety an infant has; between 10-12 months • Anger – expressed in physical ways, such as grabbing, shaking, or hitting

  8. Infant Physical Needs and Feeding • 6 months • Doctors recommend starting solid foods • Reflexive Response – infants thrust tongue forward, pushing spoon out of mouth during first spoon feeding • Doesn’t mean they don’t like it • SIDS – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome • How to prevent?

  9. Infant Physical Needs and Feeding • Sensory Stimulation Activities – letting infant touch safe objects, mobiles, sounds • Too many activities can confuse or bore the infant • Coordination – the working together of muscles in movements • Peek-a-boo – one of the first games that teaches problem solving to infants

  10. Infant Physical Needs and Feeding • Pat-a-cake – One of the first language action games for infants • Infants must possess objects before learning to share

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