Life span development-Amy

By Amy_Wild
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    Birth

    In the royal hospital in Hobart Tasmania

  • tumor removed

  • stopped crying when held (social)

    I trusted people and my family more

  • started vocalising and playing with hands (cognitive)

    Used cognitive skills to vocalise sounds and gross motor to play with mine and other peoples hands

  • roll over

  • first eat solid food (Physical)

    Ate pumpkin and developed the psysical ability to eat

  • uses furniture to stand up (cognitive)

    Uses gross motor to pul myself up and logical thinking to do it

  • feeds myself (cognitive and physical)

    I was able to eat on my own after watching people do it with logical thinking with my hands

  • saying single words (cognitive)

    Understood and started to use words of the English language

  • First walked what no help (Physical)

    was a big development in my gross motor skills

  • first word (Cognitive)

    First word pizza which improved my cognitive development

  • toilet trained

  • start preschool (cognitive)

    Introduction to school which exposed me to an academic environment helping my brain development

  • start kindergarten

  • met my now best friend (first friend)-social

  • able to count to 10 (congnitive)

    I was able to count on my own with no help which improved my learning development

  • first time playing snakes and ladders (cognitive)

    improved cognitive and logical thinking skills

  • started to dress myself for school (cognitive and physical)

    Had the logic and gross motor skills to put on outfit together and put it on without assistance

  • start prep

  • lost first tooth

  • Started primary school (social)

    primary school opened up my primary social group and improved my ability to make new friends

  • started netball

  • started therapy

  • first sleeover wihtout going home (psycho-social)

    It was very hard to be away from my Mum but good for developing my friendship and independence

  • left friends school (first school)

  • started at smc my new school (social)

    I went into a new social group

  • finished primary school

  • started high school (congnititve)

    My academic career changed and was challenged as I was introduced to an environment were my cognitive skills was challenged and eventually grown in the 4 years I spent working towards graduating highschool

  • First homework ever in religion (cognitive)

    My first experience with the responsibility and the cognitive skills to complete homework on time

  • stopped netball (moral)

    This was when I started to decide my interest was more important than participating in something because all my friends were playing the game

  • first Job (Social/cognitive)

    I was introduced to the responsibilities and privileges that came with having a Job while I made new friend and learnt how to complete new skills needed to do my job using my cognitive skills

  • cooked dinner all on my own for the first time (Cognitive)

    I came up with a meal I wanted and used my cognitive thinking and gross motor skills to make myself spaghetti when my Dad made dinner that I didn't want

  • first date (social)

  • big friend group sleepover (social)

    bonding with my high school friends was a big deal socially for me

  • first drive in a car (social/cognitive)

    Started to learn how to drive while developing new cognitive skills with my family making it a time where I could be social and spend time with family

  • year 10 formal

  • wagged school for the first time (moral)

    wagged school the day after a student free day with friends knowing it was wrong but instead decided to experiment with a different kind of behaviour in my adolescent years

  • finished highschool

  • started college

  • turned 17