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Question: What is Normal/Typical?
Answer: Occurs habitually or naturally; the usual, expected, or standard. Normal
is used interchangeably with typical in the discussion of development.
Question: What is development?
Answer: The act or process of maturing or acquiring skills ranging from simple to
more complex.
Question: What is growth?
Answer: The maturation of a person.
,Question: Which terms are analogous: Normal/Typical, Development, Growth?
Answer: Development & Growth.
Question: What are the principles of normal development?
Answer: Gestation, Infancy, Early childhood, Middle childhood, Adolescence.
Question: When does gestation occur?
Answer: During the development of the fetus in the mother’s uterus and birth.
Question: What are characteristics of gestation?
Answer:
• Prenatal: before birth (typically 40 weeks)
• Perinatal: around birth
• Postnatal: post-birth (infant is a neonate)
Question: When does infancy occur?
Answer: Birth to 18 months.
Question: What are characteristics of infancy?
Answer:
• Significant physical and emotional growth
• Development of sensory and motor skills
• Walking, talking, and performing self-care tasks
, Question: When does early childhood occur?
Answer: From 18 months through 5 years.
Question: What are the characteristics of early childhood?
Answer: Children become increasingly independent and develop a sense of
individuality.
Question: When does middle childhood occur?
Answer: From 6 years until puberty.
Question: What are the characteristics of middle childhood?
Answer:
• Spend the majority of time in educational settings
• Influence on the child shifts from parents to peers.
Question: When does adolescence occur?
Answer: From puberty to 21 years.
Question: What are the characteristics of adolescence?
Answer:
• Period of physical and psychological development that accompanies the
onset of puberty
• Hormonal changes and their resulting challenges
• Ends with the onset of adulthood.