Developmental Milestones

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There are four categories of developmental milestones. These are physical milestones, cognitive milestones, social milestones, emotional milestones and the communication milestones. These categories are the basic ones. The first category is physical milestones. The physical milestones involves both large-motor skills and fine-motor skills. The large-motor skills are usually the first to develop that includes sitting up, standing, crawling and walking. The second classification is Fine-motor skills. Fine-motor skills involves precise movements such as grasping a spoon, holding a crayon, drawing shapes and picking up small objects. The third classification is cognitive milestones, it is focuses …show more content…

The communication milestones is involve both language and nonverbal communication like a one-year-old learning how to say his or her first words and a five-year-old learning some of the basic rules of grammar. Most of these milestones typically takes place during a certain time, parents and caregivers must remember that each and every child is unique in their own way. More advanced skills like walking usually occur after simpler abilities such as crawling and sitting up have already been achieved. Just because one child began to walk by eleven months of age does not mean that another child is "behind" or “slow” if he still is not walking at 12 months. A child generally begins to walk anytime between the ages of 9 and 15 months, so anytime between those ages is considered normal. If a child is over 15 months and still cannot walk, the parents should consider consulting to a doctor or developmental specialist to determine if some type of developmental issue is present. Infants are inundated with sensory experiences that they are eager to explore they watch their parents with the eyes, attempts to move towards the warm touch of caregivers, and move their mouths to touch and taste just about anything they …show more content…

The researchers can help people with autism and also their family, and especially the people that surrounds them in understanding how and why they act that way. Having an autism has a positive and negative effect in the individual and in the family of the child with autism, because it affects the mind of the child. They are not able to express how they feel, how devastating anxiety they feel because they cannot make sense of what is happening around them. It’s hard to have an autism on your family because they are not normal. People can help the people with autism in some ways such as interacting and communicating with them every single day and also by understanding