The important areas of early childhood development

Child development What is development? The learning processes your child goes through as they grow and become an adult is called development. Skills are learnt and then combined to develop more complex tasks such as walking, talking and playing. Most children reach specific milestones at around similar ages, and this is called ‘normal development. There are 5 key areas of development: gross motor skills, for example crawling, jumping or running. fine motor skills, such as writing and drawing. speech and language. cognitive and intellectual, such as counting or identifying shapes. social and emotional skills, such as playing with other children.There is much evidence to support the importance of your child’s early development to their health and wellbeing throughout later life. Children experience the greatest rate of development during their early years and the first 5 years of life are a critically important time in brain development. While connections in the brain are made throughout life, the rapid pace at which our brains develop in these first 5 years is never repeated

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