Child Development

Critical factors that can speed up children's cognitive development include biological factors like genetics, sense organs, intelligence, and maturation. Stimulating environments with toys, books, and parent interaction provide learning opportunities and environmental enrichment that help cognitive development. Adequate nutrition is also important, as lack of proteins in utero or breastfeeding can negatively impact development.

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Critical factors that can contribute and speed up children’s

cognitive development
What is Cognitive Development ?
◦ Cognitive development is the construction of thought processes, including
remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood
through adolescences to adulthood.
◦ A child's cognitive development during early childhood, which includes building
skills such as pre-reading, language, vocabulary and begins from the moment a child
is born.
◦ Cognitive development refers to how a person perceives, thinks, and gains
understanding of his or her world through the interaction of genetic and learned
factors.
◦ Cognitive development is an adaptive effort of a child in response to various
environmental influences.
Factors that contribute and speed up children’s
cognitive development
◦ Biological factor

◦ Sense organs : Sense organs are important because they receive stimuli from the
environment. Their proper development helps in receiving correct stimuli and the
correct concepts are formed.
◦ Intelligence : It has been seen that cognitive development of intelligent children is
better. Children with low intelligence quotient are not able to receive stimuli from the
environment properly, thus their cognitive development lags behind.
◦ Biological factor

Heredity :The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one

generation to another. Cognitive development is also influenced by heredity traits; one
gets from his parents. Their development is similar to their parents’ cognitive
development.

Maturation : As children get more interactive with their environment. For a good
cognitive development, interaction with environment is very necessary which the child
goes with the help of his mental and motor maturation.
◦ Stimuli
 Environmental enrichment can strongly affect a child's cognitive development. Children
whose parents read and talk to them frequently tend to have better vocabularies and
develop skills like reading and speaking earlier. Conversely, television ,even educational
programs may have a negative impact on children's development. Parents interested in
increasing their children's intellectual capacities should expose their babies to a variety of
toys and stimuli including blocks, play letters, books and dolls.

• Learning opportunities
 The more opportunities child gets, the better is the cognition. This is because, he/she
will be able to add mental capacities by learning through this opportunities.
◦ Nutrition

 Nutrition, in many cases, seems to strongly affect a child's cognitive development --

even before she is born. Unborn babies who receive lack protein, for example, may have
slower development both in the uterus and after birth. Furthermore, the high-quality
nutrition children receive from breastfeeding correlates with higher IQ scores later in life,