PSY345H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pediatrics, Umbilical Cord, Family Therapy
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Early stimulation can affect the development of language, intelligence, personality, and self- worth. In a modern state, funds are not limited, so we have to spend money on issues smartly and appropriately. Network of infant development programs : they could belong to regions, cities and areas. They tend not be provincial, they are more of the lower level of government. Purpose: to serve infants who are at risk for developmental delay and their families. Including children who are late walking, late forming emotional attributes with their parents, children with comprehension of language that is late: serve children up to the age of 6. Goals: to optimize the child"s functioning level. We do not know the child"s potential, therefore enable them to meet their potential by optimizing the child. Ex: down syndrome (likelihood that the child will never achieve an education over grade 2 or 3).
