Monday, May 16, 2011

Milestones for Cognitive Development.

The cognitive development refers to the development of process of thought. In a child, it is all the more important to monitor and track the development of cognitive abilities.
The list below is a reference for the level of expected cognitive development. This can be used by you as a parent, to track how your child is doing and what are the areas of cognitive development.

Milestones for Cognitive development
    Sensori-motor: physically explores environment to learn about it;repeats movements to master them, which also stimulates braincell development
    4-5 mo: coos, curious and interested in environment
    6 mo: babbles and imitates sounds
    9 mo: discriminates between parents and others; trial and error problem solving
    12 mo: beginning of symbolic thinking; points to pictures in books in response to verbal cue; object permanence; some may use single words; receptive language more advanced than expressive language
    15 mo: learns through imitating complex behaviors; knows objects are used for specific purposes
    2 yrs: 2 word phrases; uses more complex toys and understands sequence of putting toys, puzzles together

The objective of Little Elly play school/ play house at Horamavu is to provide the best environment for all-round development of your kid. We serve Horamavu and Banaswadi areas. . Please visit us at our location, or call us at 990 107 1009 to know more about the coaching methodology we follow.

Next time we would present the social milestones of your child's development.

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