SWRK 224 Lecture : May 10 (SWRK 224).docx
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May 10, 2012 early childhood: physical, emotional & social development. Teratogens = any environmental factor that can impact the developing fetus (most common: alcohol and tobacco) Lecture 4 early childhood: physical, emotional & social development. Physical development: infants and toddlers (neo-natal = birth to 1 month) Sensory abilities: soon as the baby is born the baby can, infancy (1st 18 months = incapable of speech) Born with 3 abilities: feeding, innate ability to find safety, form relationships. Never grow as fast as we grow in infancy. Infants double in weight by age 4 months. By age 2 children have multiplied their birth weight by four folds and have double their original height. Cephalocaudal (from head to toe): the growth occurs from head downward: what grow fastest: Head (fetal stage) trunk (1st year) hips, legs, and feet (later in childhood: proximodistal: the growth also occurs from inward to outward. Trunk, then arms and legs, then hands and feet.
