Intfant Development
During my child observation I witnesses many differences between my son and the normal conditions of thie infant it the book "Simple Steps" by Karen Miller. I will in this essay, explore the behaviors in the book and the behaviors by my son. My son is just under seven months old; he had a somewhat normal birth. During pregnancy his mother, my wife, was hospitalized for leaking of amniotic fluid. So out of concern for him they gave him a steroid shot. This is the only difference between him and the "normal" baby. I will describe and explore 5 areas of development. They are, fine and gross motor skills, speech, social interaction, emotional development, and cognitive development. In these areas I will describe my son, thie infant's behavior and the books description of normal.
My first area of development is speech, in the book, it describes the normal behavior of speech in a 6 month old thie infant, and they are. "Babbling and jargon. At first just repitions of sounds such as ma, ma, ma, But as the child learns he will start to mix several sounds. Later an thie infant demonstrates that he has learned one of the most basic elements of communication—intonation, the melody of language. The child will make simple vowel sounds and play with pitch and rhythm. Laughter and squeals are part of this. Especially when he is playing alone, you'll hear the jabber of a string of nonsense syllables that sound like speech." thie infant will do each of these things listed. He will babble saying "da, da, da, da." And when he is alone he will play with pitch and tone. And find him self giggling and entertaining himself. He is close to getting the connection that "DA, DA, DA," is daddy but does not have that connection yet.
Our next area of development is Fine and Gross motor skills. The book state that fine motor skills at 6 months should " be grasping objects, batting at objects, playing with hands and feet, grasping objects with a purpose,...
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