Unit 6-9 Health And Social Care Study

Babies will start to lift and turn their heads, using their arms to support their upper body when lying on their stomach.

In the initial few months babies will recognise familiar voices and faces, they will try to 'people please' and bay for attention by performing for their audience through laughter and giggles. They will enjoy playing games with others such as peek a boo.

Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm..

Providing quality care to those who need it shouldn’t be difficult but sadly at times it can be; in an ideal world some effective ways to assist carers would be assessing the situation as a whole not just the pwd. Within a community there should be relevant teams that can be contacted such as district nurses, charity organisations to offer support, social services should be able to help with extra care if and when its needed, local care facilities can be helpful to provide respite all these areas would need to assess the pwd and should then be able to put to together a care plan that suit the pwd and the carer. Supporting the pwd as well as their carer is important and there for help may be needed for the carer to be able to go out if they choose or may be overnight care so they can get some well earned rest.

As the babies begin to recognise people around them this has an impact on their emotional development as they can become distressed when people are not around.

At a certain age infants begin to resist the unfamiliar and are very vocal in expressing their feelings (Brazelton, 1992).

In this week’s Ted Talk, Patricia Kuhl helped us understand the importance of early development in language. She explained that babies are like little geniuses when it comes to acquiring language. However, there is a critical period for learning it since after the age of seven, the same ability starts to decline. To investigate more about how sounds are learned, Kuhl and colleagues use a technique in which a baby is trained to turn their heads after hearing different sounds, showing that they can discriminate any sound even from different languages.

Any infant develops an increasing ability to intentionally start communication that influences the behavior of the caregiver. For instance, the 13 month old baby I was observing looks at a toy and then looks at the mother’s face to see if she is looking at the toy. In addition, the baby was looking at where the mother was pointing. However, babies send messages too to the caregiver. They obviously can tell the caregiver when they want to do something, using a combination of gestures, gaze, and vocalization. For instance, the mother understands lifted arms as a request to be pick up. Both the baby and the caregiver were engaging to one another. They smile, babble, and laugh together. Consequently, when the infants experience great care, they

At the same time that babies are learning how to communicate and develop their language skills, they are also learning how to “get what they want, when they want it.” This is called thinking and problem solving; this starts from 8 to 24 months of age.

Many parenting books state that talking to one’s fetus before birth will help in the fetus’s language development. Research indicated that newborn babies will remember their parents’ voices if they hear them while still in utero. This conclusion is based upon the belief that fetuses display learning-instigated neural plasticity of language before birth. An article in the popular press by Meghan Holohan reviewed a study in the Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences by Partanen et al. (2013) that examined if unborn babies can hear what their mothers say while they are in the womb and are able to recognize the words after being born. Holohan (2016) reviews this study, which extensively examined how babies remember sounds from the womb, by responding to specific sounds they

When we are born an obvious expression we see is crying. Newborns cry when they are hungry, sleepy, uncomfortable or as a response to a loud noise. A newborn's cry expresses distress. Newborns also tend to cry when they hear other newborns cry. At 8 months infants show signs of understanding that another infant is in distress and even then the reaction looks more like interest than real concern. At 2 months infants begin social smiling; development of visual acuity and to changes in how the infant looks at people's faces; they smile in appropriate situations. Tactile cues, especially skin contact, are an important basis of bonding for everyone at some point they begin to laugh when they hear others laugh. Moro Reflex (infant startle) they tend to display it in situations

At descent, your baby's brain inhold 100 billion neurons (as many as there are * in the Milky Way)! During his first years, he will grow trillions of brain-cell connections, called neural synapses. The rule for brain wiring is "use it or squander it." Synapses that are not "wired together" through stimulation are pruned and missing during a child's school years. Although an infant's brain does have some neurological hard wiring (such as the ability to learn any language), it is more pliable and more vulnerable than an major's brain. And, amazingly, a toddler's imagination has doubly as many neural connections as an Nestor's. When you provide affectionate, language-adorn encounter for your baby, you are giving his brain's neural connections

Parents can support development for infant gazing by asking their child what they are looking at or pointing to the object that they are gazing at. Another method that would help parents with infant gazing is to track how long their baby stares at an object by showing them a new object repeatedly until they no longer stare at it as long. The second emergent cue is infants smiling more. When an infant begins to smile more, the parents are more likely to engage in social interaction because there is more response coming from the infant. Also with smiling, parents and others are more likely to have more interaction to see the infant

Babies begin to show distinct signs of communication in their first six months. Some verbal ways infants communicate are “making sounds to themselves, like cooing, gurgling and babbling, making these noises is also a way

Between the ages of 0-6 months, a baby can hear and recognize familiar voices, sounds, and tones. A stranger’s voice may agitate a baby while its own mother’s voice will instantly calm them. If the doorbell rings every day at 1:00, when the postman delivers the mail, it may initially startle a new baby. After a few times, the baby will not even acknowledge the doorbell ringing. The baby becomes used to that tone and just ignores the interruption. Babies at this developmental stage can also communicate in their own unique way. They have particular cries and pitches in their voices that indicate a certain need. Ask most mothers and they can identify what these different cries mean. Sometimes it means they are hungry, sick, sleepy, or they just need to be held and rocked. And thus, communication begins. From 7-12 months babies have learned to babble and explore their voices, often squealing and stretching their vocal chords. They know when they are being spoken to and recognize the sound of their own name. Simple commands and the names of common objects are easily understood. Within the first year babies tend to produce their first words. During the child’s second and third years, they combine gestures with their limited vocabulary to express themselves. “Although their spoken words are limited to about 50-250 words, they have a receptive vocabulary of approximately 500-900 words” (Klarowska).