Child Development
 Physical
 Intellectual
 Emotional
 Social
 Moral
 Infancy: birth to one year
 Toddlerhood: one to three years
 Preschool age: three to five years
 School age: five to ten years
 1. The presence of automatic reflexes
 2. The development of hand-eye coordination
 3. The development of large-motor skills
 Small-motor skills
 Talking
 “I can do it” attitude
 Parallel play
 Understanding of right and wrong
 More advanced small and large-motor skills
 Counting and naming colors & letters
 Make believe
 Larger vocabulary
 Empathy
 Fears
 Cooperative play
 Spend time away from home
 Lose baby teeth
 More refined small-motor skills
 Reasoning skills
 More complex tasks
 Stress
 Form peer groups
 Stronger conscience
 Caregivers and teachers can best help them by:
 Making an early identification
 Challenging them
 Empowering them
 Helping them to fit in
 Helping them develop confidence
 Inclusion is the practice of placing together children
with disabilities and those without them for at least
part of the school day
 Children with disabilities feel that they fit in and are
challenged and stimulated
 Children without disabilities develop greater
understanding