K4D807 Child Dev 0 - 16 years

[Lucy]

Hi Everyone

I really hope someone can help, i am just about to start on this question:

Detailed knowledge and understanding of children and young people’s development in the following areas linked to an in-depth knowledge and understanding of theoretical perspectives, including:

a Physical development
b Communication, intellectual development and learning
c Social, emotional and behavioural development

In each of the age groups
i Birth–3 years
ii 3–7 years
iii 7–12 years
iv 12–16 years

I was hoping somone could give me a few pointers on how to get started. Did you use the ages as a heading and write about the different types of dev underneath or the different types of development as headings?
How much did you write and how many theories did you use?

Many thanks in advance - my head is spinning

For this question I sourced my information from a book called - How to Observe Children by Sheila Riddall-Leech. It looks at the Physical Development, Cognitive and Language development and Emotional and Social Development of children from Birth - Eleven Years old. She linked all the developmental stages in with a theorist as well. The book is in work a the moment so can't get the ISBN No.

For 12 - 16 I sourced the information from a book called Child Development by Carolyn Meggitt - ISBN No. 978-0-435420-48-2

This age range is all about puberty and how the body changed physically, what emotional stresses that older children go threw with their hormone changes etc. My assessor told me that you can more or less copy the information as developmental stages are more or less set in stone

hope this helps

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Child development thread and website information

Newer level 3 diploma handbook

[Lucy]

Hi Butterflyfllutterby

Wow thanks so much

That has really helped, i have both of those books at work so will look as soon as i arrive tomorrow morning.

Thanks Again

The only way to research your Child Development Project successfully is to have a big bar of chocolate and a bottle of aspirin by your side! If you detail your project well, it will cover quite a bit of criteria and ke. My assessor keeps reminding me that level 3 needs to have more detailed information than level 2. When I did level 2 I was always adding to the project as I was finding more information that I hadn't included so, if for instance you find a bit of info that you haven't included when your looking at your standard sheets, add it to your project then log it off! Hey presto, not so much of a nightmare (she says with 2 large bars of chocolate by her side!):reading: :madhatter

Glad to have been some help.