Question

• Discuss the cognitive, emotional, and physical (fine and gross) development that occurs in infancy.
• Using the developmental concepts you discussed in infancy, apply the data to refute or support the claims of a book or educational program's promise to help parents increase their babies' intelligence.
• Based on valid research, what suggestions would you give to a patient's parent to increase the intellectual development of infants?
• Discuss how your knowledge of development within infancy can be applied in your Obstetrics and Pediatrics clinical rotation.

Answer 1

DEVELOPMENTAL CONCEPT OF AN INFANT

Ans. GROSS MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

Fine motor development includes infants larger muscles gets larger movements. And activities. Like sitting, crowling, rolling.

FINE MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

it include use of small muscles sets for smaller and delicate movements.

Eg:- grasping, pcking small objects.

SENSORYMOTOR STAGE

* first stage: 0-1 month of age

*starts inborn reflexes like grasping, visual tracking.

*Second stage:1 to 4 months

*Primary circular recations like ability to coordinate with various sensory motor schemes.

*focus on his own body

Emotional Development

* Use facial expression and tone of voice as cues.

* looking others

*associating the other response with situation

*Regulating their own reponse to match.

Education programes for parents can improves babys intellectual development some examples are like

* sing a song and wncourage baby to sing walong with you.

*Identify voices, alphabets, counting

* offer choices and asj questions

*practice shape and colors

*visit intresting places etc

DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES OF INFANTS

As per my experience developmental mile stones are things most childrens are like to do by a certain age through how they play, learn, speak, behave and move.

Some Milestone are

*Cognitive development

*Social and emotional development

*Speech and language development

*fFne motor and skill development

*Gross motor development

As a parent we also have major role in helpingdeveloping babys growth mikestone development.