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Julie Lumeng, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Spring 2010
Learning Objectives
For ages 2 to 12 years:
Physical Growth
– Normal
– Patterns and characteristics of abnormal
Nutrition
Physical Activity
Development
– Normal
– Patterns and characteristics of abnormal
Physical Growth
Normal Growth:
Weight and Height
Separate growth charts for:
– Girls and boys
– Birth to 36 months
– 2 to 20 years
– Publicly available via CDC website
Specialized growth charts for children with
chromosomal abnormalities that alter
growth potential (e.g. Turner’s syndrome,
Down syndrome)
OK135S053
CDC
CDC
Height
Down Syndrome U.S. General
Norms Population Norms
• In normally growing
children, occurs
between ages 4 and
7 years
• A normal BMI in a
Overweight range FOR ADULTS child often would fall in
the underweight range
if adult cut-offs for
normal weight ranges
are used
Normal range FOR ADULTS
EXAMPLE
• A 5-year-old with a
BMI of 18
• By adult standards, is
Underweight range FOR ADULTS ‘underweight’
• Using appropriate
norms for children, is in
the “obese” range (95th
percentile)
Adapted from CDC
Abnormal Growth
– Height
Abnormal Growth: Obesity
Terminology
– “Obese” is a BMI > 95th percentile for age
and sex
– “Overweight” is a BMI > 85th but < 95th
percentile for age and sex
– “Underweight” is a BMI < 5th percentile
for age and sex
CDC
Childhood Obesity
Epidemic
CDC
Grains (oz/day) 3 5 10
Vegetables 1 2 3.5
(cups/day)
Fruits (cups/day) 1 1.5 2.5
Milk (cups/day) 2 2 3
Language
Social Emotional
Cognitive
Fine Motor
Gross Motor
Adaptive
Normal Development:
Speech & Language
Speech
–Articulation, pronunciation
–Motor production of sounds
Language
–Expressive
– Ability to produce words (breadth of
vocabulary, construction of sentences, not
simply ability to pronounce)
–Receptive
– Ability to understand spoken words
Normal Development:
Speech
Age % intelligible to
a stranger
2 years 2/4 = ½ (50%)
3 years ¾ (75%)
3 years 200
4 years 1500
5 years 2700
Normal Development:
Language: 2 to 5 years
Mean length of utterance (number of
words in a sentence) about equal to
age
Number of steps in a command a child
is able to follow increases with age
Correct use of all parts of speech by
age 6 years
Normal Development:
Language: School Age
Pragmatics
– Explaining information to a listener to
effectively communicate
What does listener know and not know?
– Initiate and maintain a conversation
– Grasping main idea without getting lost in
details
– Make inferences
Normal Development:
Cognitive
Preoperational Concrete Formal
Operations Operations
Age 2-7 7-11 >12 (or never)
Problem Solving and Concrete (based on past Based on rules of Abstract, flexible,
Reasoning experience), trial and logic, planning rational, testing
error, magical thinking hypotheses
Ability to take No Yes Yes
perspective of another
person
Morality Objective (rules only) Subjective (can by Laws are valid if they
gray) are just. “Question
authority.”
Ability to work with Sorting, matching, Manipulating (i.e. add Abstract concepts
symbols (i.e. numbers) ordering and subtract) (geometry, algebra)
Understanding that No Yes Yes
characteristics of object
conserved despite
looking different
Example of Pre-Operational
Reasoning: Lack of Understanding
of Conservation
Conservation of
liquid cartoon
removed
Regulate emotion