Middle Childhood : Growth and Development.

children ages five to 12 years

• School-Age Child

• Developmental Delay

• Fine Motor Skills

• Gross Motor Skills

behaviors or skills seen in school-age children as they grow or develop

• Gross Motor Skills

• Developmental Delay

• Developmental Milestones

• Developmental Disability

abilities required to control the large muscles of the body for running, swinging, dancing and other activities

• Gross Motor Skills

• Fine Motor Skills

• Developmental Delay

• Developmental Disability

abilities required to control the small muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips and tongue

• Fine Motor Skills

• Gross Motor Skills

• Developmental Delay

• Developmental Disability

Instance in which a child is continually behind in obtaining skills other children of a similar age have learned

• Developmental Delay

• Developmental Disability

• Developmental Milestones

• Fine Motor Skills

Issues where a child does not outgrow or catch up, though progress can be made

• Developmental Disability

• Developmental Delay

• Developmental Milestones

• Fine Motor Skills

The ability to sort items by one or more characteristics they have in common

• classification

• conservation

• dexterity

• executive strategies

The ability to understand that something can remain the same even if the way it looks changes; for example a simple change in the shape of an object does not change it amount.

• conservation

• classification

• developmental delays

• dexterity

The skill use of hands and fingers.

• dexterity

• conservation

• classification

• developmental disabilities

Skills used to solve a problems.

• executive strategies

• dexterity

• classification

• conservation