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Stages of Child & Adolescent Development

This document outlines the typical physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of children and adolescents in three stages: late childhood (ages 8-11), early adolescence (ages 11-13), and middle adolescence (ages 14-18). In late childhood, physical growth increases while logical thinking develops. Socially, children focus on their own needs and want approval. In early adolescence, puberty occurs while abstract thought grows. Socially, identity struggles emerge and peer influence increases. In middle adolescence, physical maturity is complete while deeper thinking and goal-setting occur. Socially, independence is desired while relationships become important.

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Stages of Child & Adolescent Development

This document outlines the typical physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of children and adolescents in three stages: late childhood (ages 8-11), early adolescence (ages 11-13), and middle adolescence (ages 14-18). In late childhood, physical growth increases while logical thinking develops. Socially, children focus on their own needs and want approval. In early adolescence, puberty occurs while abstract thought grows. Socially, identity struggles emerge and peer influence increases. In middle adolescence, physical maturity is complete while deeper thinking and goal-setting occur. Socially, independence is desired while relationships become important.

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Stages of Child & Adolescent Development

Stages of Physical Development Cognitive Development Social/ Emotional Development Typical School Situation
Development
Late Childhood • Grow an average of • Use logical thinking • Predominantly focused in needs and • Usually upper elementary school
2-3 inches and 7 with a limited ability to wants of themselves • 3rd to 5th grade
Approximately pounds per year extend logic to abstract • Want to gain social approval • Learning and interacting primarily with
8-11 years of • Puberty begins concepts • Have a tendency to be disorganized and own grade level with close adult
age between 8-13 for • Have ability to apply forgetful supervision at school, both inside and
girls; around 10 for learned concepts to • Little concern about appearance outside the classroom
boys new tasks • Friendships based on proximity,
• Girls become • Interest in learning life common interests
physically larger than skills from adults at • Early onset puberty associated with
boys with onset of home lower self-control and emotional
puberty instability, especially for boys
Early • Puberty: grow body • Growing capacity for • Struggle with sense of identity • Usually middle school
Adolescence hair, increase abstract thought • Feel awkward about one’s self and • Grades 6-8
perspiration and oil • Mostly interested in one’s body; • Learning primarily with own grade
Approximately production in hair present with limited • Increased conflict with parents level, although elective courses and
11-13 years of and skin thought of the future • Increased influence of peers extracurricular activities may be multi-
age • Tremendous physical • Intellectual interests • Desire for independence grade
growth in weight and expand and become • Tendency to return to childish behavior • More opportunities for autonomy and
height more important when stressed unstructured interactions
• Sexual interest • Deeper moral thinking • Moodiness • Less direct supervision than in
• Rule- and limit-testing elementary school
• Greater interest in privacy
Middle • Puberty is completed • Continued growth of • Intense self-involvement, changing • Usually high school
Adolescence • Physical growth capacity for abstract between high expectations and poor • Grades 9-12
slows for girls, thought self-concept • Learning with students in other grades
Approximately continues for boys • Greater capacity for • Continued adjustment to changing in many classes (i.e. a Spanish class
14-18 years of setting goals body, worries about being normal may have both 9th graders and 12th
age • Interest in moral • Tendency to distance selves from graders in it)
reasoning parents • Increasing interaction with students of
• Thinking about the • Continued drive for independence different grade levels
meaning of life • Driven to make friends and great • Reduced supervision than in lower
reliance on them grades
• Popularity can be important issue
• Feeling of love and passion

Adapted from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent’s Facts for Families, 2008
Stages of Child & Adolescent Development

Adapted from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent’s Facts for Families, 2008

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