Stages of growth and

development
• Growth is a lifelong process that starts with a
single cell. It’s created by joining together of
one special cell with another cell which comes
from each parent.
• The period of life from the first year through
the teen years is a time of great growth.
 Different stages of growth.
• There are stages of growth that a person goes
through.
• Infancy
• Early childhood
• Childhood
• Late childhood
• Adolescence
• adulthood
 Infancy
• Infancy- from birth to 18th months
• Physical changes
• Bones are still soft and flexible
• Learns to sit, to crawl, to stand and to sit.
• Mental changes
• Gets what it need by crying
• Can recognize parents and siblings
 Early childhood
• 18th month to 3 years
• Physical changes
• Learns to walk and to talk
• Arms and legs get longer
• Mental changes
• Learns to use the toilet
• Social changes
• Not ready to share or to play interactively with
others
 Childhood
• 3 to 6 years
• Physical changes
• Begins to lose milk teeth
• Mental changes
• Learns to behave while in a group
• Social changes
• Learns to play interactively and to make friends
• Emotional changes
• Physical contact becomes less frequent
 Late childhood
• Physical changes
• Appetite increases
• Process of sexual maturity begins
• Mental changes
• Acquires high-level thinking skills
• Emotional changes
• Self-centeredness lessens
• Choose friends of the same sex
 Adolescence
• The period of gradual change from childhood to
adulthood the time of life between childhood and
adulthood.
• Physical changes
• Rapid physical growth
• Body starts to look more like an adult
• Mental changes
• Begins to question oneself
• Starts to enjoy participating in adult conversation
• Emotional changes
• Feeling very quickly from being happy to being
lonely.
• Sees people as having needs like his.
• Social changes
• Friends views become more important
 Adulthood
• Period from the twenties onward
• Physical changes
• A slow weakening of the five senses
• a slow loss of calcium in the bones
• Bones become brittle
• Stiffening of the joints and weakening of the
muscles
Submitted to ma’am Jenny
health

Ralph Audric Tuppil