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We respectfully acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands and waters of Australia.  \nModels appear in our photographs to protect the identity of our clients.  \n© Copyright Berry Street Take Two 2024.  \nChild Developmental Milestones — Foundations for Practice 2  \nThis guide helps explain key stages of child development. Evidence-based understanding of child development isan essential component of good practice when working with children. Having a good grounding in typical child development helps identify delays or differences.  \nHealthy child development supports wellbeing throughout life.  \nThe term ‘children’ refers to all people under the age of 18 years – including pre-birth, newborn, babies, toddlers, pre-school, school-aged children, pre-teens, teenagers and young adults.  \nChild Developmental Milestones — Foundations for Practice  \nIn this guide  \nThe guide covers the biological, psychological and social changes that occur in children from before birth to the end of adolescence, as they progress from total dependence on caregivers to the interdependence of adulthood.  \nIt is broken down by age groups and into distinct domains of development:  \n• cognitive  \n• speech and language  \n• social and relational  \n• emotional  \n• physical and sensory  \n• sleep.  \nA word on working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families  \nFamily, Community, Ancestors, Country, languages and Culture are integral to the development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their sense of identity, belonging, healing and overall wellbeing.  \nDevelopment principles informed by a child’s  \nCommunity and Culture have a significant impact on a child or young person’s social, emotional, health, educational and psychological development.  \nCommunity and Culture help to shape their transition into adulthood as strong, resilient and connected people. Parents are prescriptive only when they need to be, such as when there is a serious threat to the child.  \nAll children have their own agency, their own decision-making abilities on all matters. From this mothers have no routines, childrearing is responsive not prescriptive. Themothers appeared to have no set routines for their babies; their interventions and care were responsive to their babies’ needs, not prescriptive. (Kruske, 2012, p.781).  \nAn overarching principle from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature is that development is child-led and not age-related. From this foundation, these developmental guidelines act as prompts, not descriptive expectations.  \n3  \nPre-natal  \nFirst Trimester  \n• 0 to 8 weeks: Embryo is formed.  \n• 8+ weeks: Embryo has become a foetus.  \nSecond Trimester  \n• 19 to 21 weeks: Foetus can move facial muscles, yawn, suck thumb.  \n• 24 weeks: Responds to sounds, inner ear canal developed. 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