Course Description:

Child development encompasses physical, language, cognitive, and social-emotional areas, sometimes emphasizing one domain more prominently than others. At the same time, each domain can support the development of the other. This course will cover child development in multiple domains for children age 0 to 3 years old. Domains will include gross motor, fine motor, vision, language and play development which includes cognition, attention and social-emotional areas. Barriers to development will be reviewed, including physical, visual and visual-motor, cognition, and social delays. Warning signs for therapists and discussion of when referrals to other disciplines will be discussed. Case studies will include diagnoses of Developmental Delay, Autism and genetic disorders.