Organize According to Key Cognitive Changes

Organize According to Key Cognitive Changes
It means that we won’t find information packaged milestone-based groupings of birth to three month, three to six months, six to twelve months, and so on.

Instead we focus on the phases of cognitive (learning) changes that accompany neurological (brain) development.

Infant-Birth to 6 months
This is the period during which vision develops to nearly adult capacity; by six months, eyesight is well established and propped sitting aids in a new perspective from which to view the world, which creates a shift on what your child can learn.

Baby-6 to 18 months
This is the period of the emergence of language, which includes first words, first short sentences, early concept development.

The auditory system is rapidly wiring to both comprehend and produce language.

This is also a time of broader social interaction.

With increased social opportunities, a child’s personality noticeably emerges.
Independent mobility (both crawling and walking) opens a world of explorations that was unavailable as an infant.

Toddler-18 months to 3 years
This is the period during which opportunities to play and interact with other children (as well as adults) in playgroups or initial nursery and preschool groups influence a child’s cognitive growth in both receptive and expressive language development.

A child’s initial knowledge of concepts becomes elaborated as she has more and more experiences.

Just because parents know what various milestone a child is supposed to achieve, it doesn’t mean that they know what to do to encourage the child’s development.

Therefore the advice is to not to focus on the children’s action can or cannot do at specific times, but rather on adult behaviors that parents and baby caregivers can do that will eventually result in child achieving various milestone in her own good time.
Organize According to Key Cognitive Changes