Child Development Checklist



Activity 1.2 Child Development Profile

When forming an understanding about a child’s level of development, it is useful to consider several aspects of their development.

Below there is an explanation of these aspects of child development.

Aspects of Child Development

|Area of development |Brief explanation and guide |

|Physical / Motor development |This area is about how a child can move and have physical control over his/her body. |

| |Gross motor development – the coordination of large muscles of the body so that the |

| |child can do such things as to walk, run, hop, jump, kick, throw, climb etc. |

| |Fine motor development – the child’s ability to move the fine or smaller muscles of |

| |the body for example when using tools and materials to draw, write, pick up/put down, |

| |eat with a spoon etc. |

|Emotional / Social development |This area is about how the child interacts with others, how they play with peers, |

| |their attitude towards others, their ability to share & cooperate, their social |

| |manners etc. |

| |It includes a child’s ability to learn the rules of society, to build relationships |

| |and their development of a self identity with regards to gender, culture, ability and |

| |ambitions. |

| |It is about the child’s ability to express and manage feelings and emotions, to |

| |establish a level of trust in relationships, to cope with fear, to know what is right |

| |and wrong and to feel empathy. |

|Cognitive / Language development |This area is about is about thinking - the child’s ability to understand concepts and |

| |organise the world into understandable parts. It includes perception, memory, |

| |judgement, problem-solving, attention-span, the ability to reason and understand. |

| |It is also about language development – how the child communicates with others: the |

| |child’s ability to listen, speak, write, read, hear and their, speech, grammar etc. |

Activity 1.2 Child Development Profile

|Directions: |

|1. Look at the three main areas of Child Development and complete the Child Profile on page 3 on a child that you know. |

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|2. Check your completed Child Profile against the Child Developmental Checklist, that is generally used at your workplace and attach |

|it to your profile. |

|(You could download and use one of the Checklists on a website listed below) |

• Guide to Children’s growth and development (pdf), which may be found at the Department of Community Services (NSW) website at: munity..au

Path: parents, carers & families > parenting > resources for parents

• Child Development & Trauma Guide (pdf), at the

Department of Human Services (VIC) website at:

cyf..au

Path: Children Youth & Families > every child every chance > Library > publications > best interests series

Using a checklist

Start by looking at items at the child’s age.

For example, for a child of three and a half, start in the three to five year age range.

You may also need to look at items in the age range below or above the child’s actual age.

NOTE: Use a Child Developmental Checklist only as a guide to help you to communicate and interact with the child at their appropriate level when interviewing.

Using the checklist >

Child Development Profile

Student name: …………................……………………………… Date: ………………………………

Child’s name: ................................................................. (Do not write child’s surname for this exercise)

|Area of development | Brief description |

|Physical / Motor development | |

|Emotional / Social development | |

|Cognitive / Language development | |

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