Glossary words

• Infancy 


  . 0 - 2 years

  . State or period of baby hood or early childhood
• Childhood 


  . 3 - 12 years

  . The state of period of being a child
• Adolescence 


  . 13 - 19 years

  . The period following onset of puberty during which a younger person develops from child to adult
• Adulthood 


  . 20 - 64 years

  . The period in which the human lifespan where physical and intellectual maturity has been obtained
• Later adulthood 


  . 65+ years

  . The final stages of adulthood
• Physical development 


  Growth, strength, fine and gross motor skills
• Intellectual development 


  Development of speech and knowledge
• Emotional development 


  Understand and control of emotions
• Social development 


  How individuals interact with those around them
• Centle chart 


  Plotting a child growth on a chart. We can see weather they are following an expected pattern. Centre lines show how one child is compared with children the same age + gender (sex)
• Personal child health record 


  Also known as PCHR or 'red book' is a national standard health + development record given to parents at birth.
• Child measurements programmes for Wales. 


  Development assessments of all children at certain stages throughout their childhood. Gives us an idea of weather a child needs further support.
• Schedule of growing skills 


  Played based assessments and gives us a picture of the child's strengths and areas where they might need support
• Growth 


  The physical changes that happen due to an increase in size, height and weight.
• Development 


  How children gain control over their physical actions to do complicated and difficult activities more skillfully
• Milestones 


  Stages in development
• Norms 


  Points in development where a particular change is expected to happen for most of the population development follows a relatively predictable pattern.
• Gross motor skills 


  Development and control of whole body movement using the larger muscles eg. Crawling, walking, running.
• Fine motor skills 


  Development and control of the smaller muscles of hands, fingers and feet eg writing, doing up buttons.
• Puberty


  The time of life when a child experiences physical and hormonal changes that mark a transition into adulthood. Happens during adolescence.
• Hormone 


  Body's chemical messengers, sending signals to the body from the brain.
• Testosterone 


  A hormone made mainly in the testes (part of male reproductive system)
• Menstrual cycle 


  Monthly hormonal cycle a female body goes through to prepare for pregnancy
• Menopause 


  Stage of women's life when periods stop permanently and can no longer get pregnant
• Ageing 


  Natural physical changes that happen over a person's life and growing old  
• Language

  Speaking, listening and communicating
• Cognitive

  Thinking skills + understanding concepts
• Learning

  How to organise ideas and thoughts to make sense of the world
• Object permanence 


  Understanding that something still exists even though it can't be seen  
• Creativity

  Being able to express inventive ideas in a unique way
• Non verbal

  Transfer of information from one person to another without the use of words
• Verbal

  Involves the use of spoken or written words to express thoughts ideas and emotions
• Makaton

  Use of symbols (pictures) signs (gestures) and speech to enable people to communicate