The Neonate (newborn):

           Apgar; Reflexes; Characteristics; Behavior; Activity States; Temperament; Crying; Touch, SIDS

General characteristics of Infancy
           Review neonate:  capabilities, states, reflexes, SIDS, temperament
           Developmental tasks; Erikson's crises
           Relation between psychological, physical, social, and cognitive development
 
Physical and Motor Development :
            Manual Skills
            Walking
 

Perceptual / Sensory Systems

Methods of study; capabilities; interrelationships and relationships with other systems
 
SIDS

Language Acquisition

• Characteristics; Developmental Stages
• Normal vs. Deaf children
• Theories of Chomsky, Skinner, Lenneberg
• Influences on Language Acquisition; Terms
 
Attachment
• Definitions; Theories of
• Stages; Attachment types
• Influences on; Importance of;
• Objects of attachment
 
Cognitive Development
    Sensorimotor functioning and stages; relationships to other systems

 

Resiliency

 

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