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Physical development
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Middle childhood and adolescence are
times of complex physical changes and
the refining of existing skills.
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• Physical development follows a predictable sequence.
• Individual children develop at different rates.
• Brain development has a significant impact on motor development.
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Factors that may impact on physical development include:
Maturation (readiness)
Heredity
Environmental influences
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Physical growth relates to the growth of
bones, muscles, tendons, nerves and
organs (sensory, speech, skin, brain and
heart).
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Motor development includes both
quantitative physiological change
and qualitative change
Cephalocaudal development
Proximodistal development
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Motor development includes:
gross motor development
fine motor development
perceptual motor development
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Two important perceptual processes depend on vision and hearing:
visual perception – the ability to make sense and meaning out of what you see
auditory perception – the ability to make sense and meaning out of what you hear
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Visual perception skills:visual discrimination
figure ground
spatial relationships
visual memory
visual closure© 2012 Pearson Australia ISBN: 9781442541757
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Auditory perception skills:
•auditory awareness
•auditory decoding
•auditory discrimination
•auditory memory
•auditory sequencing© 2012 Pearson Australia ISBN: 9781442541757
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Dominance and Hand Preference
Establishing dominance assists children to
accomplish many tasks including writing and
reading.
Children who have not developed a hand
preference will have difficulty with tasks that
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Risk-taking and injuryThe shift towards the importance of the peer group as a key socialising influence means that adolescence is also a time for risk-taking behaviour, which escalates toward the senior high school years. Because of this, young people are at risk of accidents and injuries.
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Childhood obesity
Children who are obese are also likely to
have social problems, poor self-esteem
and low self-confidence.
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