Difference Between Development And Rate Of Development

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Explain the difference between sequence of development and rate of development and why the difference is important

Sequence of development: This is the order of how development will happen, for example, when one child’s physical development could start with rolling over, then sitting up, crawling, walking and then running. But another child’s development could start with sitting up, walking then running and misses out on the rolling over and crawling. Though some of this child’s elements were missed the development still proceeded in an expected pattern.

Rate of development:
The rate is involved within a time frame linked in with age of how a child develops. For example from where one child will be able to talk from the age