#developmental skills

[useoftoysforchildsdevelop]

Understanding and Nurturing a Child's Attention Span

  Understanding and nurturing a child's attention span is crucial for their cognitive development and academic success. Attention span refers to the amount of time a person can focus on a task without being easily distracted. 

Here are some insights and strategies to help unlock the secrets of a child's attention span:

Understanding Attention Span in Children:

1. Age-Related Differences: 

a. Younger children generally have shorter attention spans than older children.

b. Preschoolers may have an attention span of 2-5 minutes per year of age.

2. Individual Variations: Attention spans vary from child to child. What works for one may not work for another.

3. Developmental Stages: Attention spans develop gradually over time as children grow and mature.

4. External Factors: Distractions, lack of sleep, hunger, or discomfort can significantly impact attention.

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#attention span #Babylist welcome box #developmental skills #improve focus and attention #inspirational quotes #language development early childhood #positive quotes #social development for preschoolers

[drdemonprince]

I was 34 years old when I learned a person is "supposed" to dry off with a towel while still inside the shower, and not, as i have been doing, just step out of the shower completely sopping wet, wrap ones body in a towel like they do in the movies and then stomp around the house like that, leaving a massive droplet trail

all my life, my loved ones have made comments about me being visibly dripping wet and leaving water all around me when ive just left the shower. but i neatly folded away all those remarks under the category of "literally true observation with no covert meaning" and never thought anything of it.

until someone finally suggested i try a different post shower strat, and demonstrated it to me, 34 years in.

#research shows autistics continue to gain skills at later ages than nts! #developmental disability means shit takes time baby!

[mitskijamie]

Speaking of. Ted Lasso truly does have some of the worst kid dialogue I’ve ever seen on television. Like when 9 year old Phoebe was like “it’s understandable. You were only together a year, and most relationships can’t even survive one major career change, let alone two.” have you never met a child in your entire life

#oc #I get that Phoebe is supposed to be precocious and weirdly smart but like #no 9 year old (not even the smartest 9 year old in the world) is capable of that level of emotional maturity and wisdom #to formulate a thought like that ​you need life experience and social-emotional skills that no child has #a year is over 10% of her entire lifespan wdym ‘you were only together a year’. a year is an ETERNITY to a little kid #and I know it’s a joke but as an ed student bad kid dialogue is just my pet peeve #watching a comedy like ‘she is not fucking developmentally capable of that’

[aro529]

From another post…

#halloween #kindness #children #nonverbal #poor fine motor skills #allergies #autism #sensory processing disorder #developmentally delayed #thank you #sensitive #patient #understanding

[presidentquinn]

Every time someone reduces dyspraxia to bad motor skills and completely ignores the mental effects that are equally or arguably even harder to deal with, I am allowed to commit one(1) crime.

#dyspraxia #actually dyspraxic #actuallydyspraxic #developmental disorders #developmental disabilities #but anyways guys this disorder affects EVERY aspect of your life #the processing issues. the executive dysfunction. the constant fatigue(even from doing tasks that have NOTHING to do with motor skills) #being overwhelmed all the time. being unable to express your thoughts. being unable to cope with life #many people with dyspraxia also struggle with memory but I lucked out on that #but uhh in short dyspraxia is way way wayyyyy more than just being uncoordinated #i’m actually diagnosed btw so i do have Experience Living With This #Quinn’s posts

[potters-little-ferret]

Arthur and Lucius run into each other at The Leaky Cauldron. What begins as their usual bitching sesh gradually turns into them challenging each other to a drinking game. Which escalates to them becoming incredibly drunk. They play beer pong. Arthur gives Lucius a slurred lecture on the function of a rubber duck. At some point in the evening, Lucius ends up wearing Arthur's glasses. They buy weed off some dodgy bloke in an alley. Arthur gives Lucius a "driving test" in the Ford Anglina and they end up in a ditch.

The next morning, someone from the ministry is sent to bail them out of the police station. The weed hasn't worn off yet. Arthur is still babbling on about ducks and how nonsensical it is to have one in your bath. Lucius has the munchies and has been chewing on his own sleeve for the last six hours.

Send me HP headcanons that would piss JK off. The gayer, the better.

"Did you know......that some Muggles...put little ducks in their baths?"

"They bathe with ducks? Wouldn't that make a *hiccup* mess?"

"Noooo, they're rubber ducks. Tiny rubber ducks that just.......bob along the surface of the water. And they squeak."

"But what do they do? What's the pra....the practi.....the practically....what's the point?"

"That's the thing. There is no point. They just have them there for fun."

"Oh my GOD."

#hp #ferret replies #headcanons #fun fact #rubber ducks were made to help kids developmental skills in water #and can help kids who are scared of water #someone tell Arthur #arthur weasley #lucius malfoy #this is amazing btw

[thursdayglrl]

I think it's funny that people took the word "parallel play" and declared its a neurodivergent thing. no it's a child development thing I'm pretty sure most adults understand the concept of "comfortable silence" and "wanting company while I do things, but not necessarily wanting to talk'

#parallel play is when children play separately in silence and is most common in younger children because most of them eventually move on to #playing together collaboratively #but just because a child develops social skills and awareness and starts to involve others in play doesnt mean they STOP parallel play #and also. as an adult youre not like being assessed on whether youre including your classmates in playing blocks #like its unusual for older children to not include peers in their activities. THAT part is the autism part #its not like developmentally unusual for adults to have things they do separately but in the same room/environment/etc even silently #cause youre not. Playing. like including your adult friend in your work tasks or your twittet scrolling or your book reading isnt a #developmental milestone #idk i saw someone being like 'i love doing parallel play with my husband and doing my own thing while he does his i cant believe NTs feel #the need to talk to their partners every time they're around' and im like oh my god get off ~neurospicy~ twitter

[wronggalaxy]

Autism levels can be so dumb sometimes. Like I get why they're necessary for some people, but also

Level 2= okayish masking skills, mid-support needs, being mostly verbal, and high/average cognitive skills, right?

Except I'm level 2 and can't mask, need help with at least 95% of things but probably more, aren't fully verbal if verbal at all most of the time, and my cognitive skills seesaw between advanced and barely existent.

Despite all this I'm not autistic enough to be level 3. Levels don't help me, they hurt me by associating me with people way more advanced and therefore losing me the few, few help I would get.

I have level 1, 2, and 3 friends and I'm none of them, which is why I'm level 2, but it doesn't work.

#autism #actually autistic #disabled #disability #developmental disabilities #disabilties #autism life #autism level 2 #autism levels #high support needs #autistic masking #i can't mask #cognitive skills

[void-tiger]

…the difference between me and my allo friend… she already has a friendship with her crush. Her crush jokes and texts and visits her back. He’s even hugged her. And if he isn’t attracted to her back, she’ll throw all that away. Is there ANY consideration for his feelings at all?!

While me? I will rip out my own heart by keeping my distance if that’s what would be needed from me—because of a lack of interest, or because things are just complicated; there isn’t a lack of interest back. The opposite, apparently. There’s an Old Guilt about Yet Again feeling unable to reciprocate back the way they wish to…when this whole time all I’ve wanted was to try and find a middle ground. I will aggressively and persistently defend the right to JUST friendship and gently but firmly tell everyone to Leave It Alone, Stay Out Of It, Don’t Pressure EITHER Of Us. Because actual trust and respect and building a solid friendship at whatever level the other person either wants or can offer back…that means more to me than “I’m romantically attracted to this person emotionally and if they feel the same way I’d be open to exploring that with them at whatever point in the future.”

I…dunno. Maybe it’s just the difference between allosexuals and asexuals. Or Lust/Infatuation and alterous/queer platonic attraction. I won’t claim that I’m immune to limerence because…I’m not. But the kind I experience isn’t built upon The Idea of a person and what they look like…but my brain refusing to not get hyperfixated on someone and struggling to pry its jaws open to Let It GO, and…hope, I guess. Hope to finally actually be accepted and not containing myself so tightly inside.

Who someone actually is, if we have a spark of a platonic rapport (over QPR or romantic), matters more to me than an Idea of them, how they look, etc.

And it’s hard to not feel exasperated with apparently…this isn’t how people experience things. I’m always worrying my desire for a connection is too heavy and ultimately selfish. Even as…I really Don’t Care what sort of relationship I have, I just want to discover what it is and fortify it then privately compartmentalize anything leftover. While the majority of people…really don’t take someone’s feelings into consideration at all. It’s only how they feel and how the object of their attraction makes them feel.

…how am I supposed to not feel completely furious about this utter objectification regardless of someone’s gender and sexuality being considered the Acceptable Norm.

Especially when I have always had to fight so damn hard to even have friends and platonic intimacy with friends. Forget when I do have “extra” platonic attraction at play as well.

#tiger’s roar #don’t mind me. it’s just ANGY Ace Time #and I DO have the respect and care and dare I say it affection and attraction more or less returned #but like. I had to fight SO FUCKING HARD for it #harder than anyone else would’ve bothered to #…but the draw just Wouldn’t Go Away and the Draw even existed at all because they ARE someone who’s acted like they yearn for that too #that they are kind. and accept me. and have similar/same interests and to some degree a similar sense of humor #the tension…is circumstances. and misunderstandings for like. 2.5 years. but I think I FINALLY got those resolved #because…I am. stubborn like that. if I’m not told No each time I Check For A No. if I can accept I’m Not A Bother #then…yeah. I’m gonna put energy into exploring for a middle ground and defending the right to friendship and understanding/accepting #in addition to the selfwork I’m going to keep on doing. for my own healing. my own future self. #but especially when it might/is affecting other people #’iT’s nOT tHAT dEEP TiGER!!’ okay but LISTEN. I have A LOT of trauma to resolve and yearning for connection to deal with #and social skills to be stuck practicing very much delayed because my developmental environment STUNTED them #but the pain of Not Dealing With It is poisoning me so…I HAVE to deal with the extreme distress of taking that on #so…yeah. it IS That Deep to me #and when people just…take the friendships they already have for granted… BRUH.

[365momme]

10 Educational Activities for Toddlers: Making Learning Fun

Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels.com Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather ’round! Prepare to embark on a wildly entertaining journey into the world of education for the tiniest scholars. We present to you, with a dash of humor and a sprinkle of silliness, the top 10 educational activities for toddlers that will have them giggling their way to knowledge! Sensory Play: Get ready to squish,…

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#art and crafts #childhood education #cooking #counting games #creativity #developmental milestones #early learning #educational activities #fine motor skills #Imagination #mathematics #music and movement #nature walks #outdoor learning #problem-solving #puzzles #sensory exploration #sensory play #storytelling #toddlers

[renwyvernsims]

Little Alcor's mischievous streak knows no bounds! The little guy really wants to play in the toilet.

"Al? What on earth do you think you're doing?"

"Wah wah!"

"Alcor, please tell me you weren't splashing around in the toilet!"

"Nuu..."

"I swear, I clean all that syrup you spilled in the living room, and you're already off causing chaos somewhere else! We don't play in the toilet, got it?"

"Bwaaahh!"

"Sigh... I'm sorry I yelled at you, Momma's just frustrated. Playing in toilets is a no-no, okay? It's got yucky water."

#sims legacy #sims 4 gameplay #ravenheart legacy #alexa ravenheart #alcor ravenheart #poor alcor doesn't get why he's in trouble #alexa is still learning how to be a mom #alcor also has a developmental delay impacting his speech and communication skills #so he can't quite talk yet #his moms are working with him on that

[gurorori]

im so so sad i wish i could be an adult

#does anyone else get terrified of the fact they will never be an adult and adequately perform adulthood in any capacity #it might be subjective but i know i can't. everyone around us can without question but the moment i try my brain fails #im terrified of doing anything to escape this household bc i will be all on omy own #and i know i can't do that i will not survive but i have no choice and no support system i have NO ONE to rely on i have no outside contact #im so so scared. i was not taught any of the life skills and ilack the capacity to think or act like an adult and i know it's not something #i can acquire at all because everyone did by now. everyone did i wish i wasnt perpetually left behind and flailing trying to stay afloat #i hate everyone around me who set us up for failure i hate them for not being able to provide me at least the care and support i need #if i can hold down a job and that's very very questionable i will at least be happy with myself. that's something. #it's scary and so alienating snd i wouldn't wish it upon anyone i just can't function on the same level #something tells me it's okay bc normal brains supposedly don't finish developing til 25 but this is not considering developmental disability #but im so scared of being seen as incompetent and unserious and unreliable when we're already in our twenties #i wish someone could relate #maybe it's something to do with my source too as a system but i still genuinely feel like not a single thing changed since our teens i feel #so stuck and so stunted #i am nothing. perhaps. #vent #? idont even knoe

[hawnks]

hosting a plant propagation party so we all have an excuse to stick our hands in dirt <3

#STICK YOUR HANDS IN SOME DIRT SUNDAY #sometimes I think about that article by the developmental doctor where she was talking about how people are losing motor skills because #phones are our primary tools and one of the solutions she suggested was literally everyone playing with mud #squawk tag

[pfizers]

My main energy source is knowing I’m doing better than my irls

#this is about a friend that clearly overstepped a professional #a professional boundary as a fucking CAMP COUNSELOR like bitch what about when you get a real job #idk I’m just so used to feeling like developmentally behind her in terms of social situations and like real life #like she constantly implies that I might be smart but I have no like . practical skills or something #at least I don’t get fired for the most easily avoidable reason imaginable

[bpod-bpod]

Baby Brains

The human body carries on developing after birth – but the rate of these changes is still in question for developmental biologists. Here scientists take magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of sleeping children’s cerebellums over the first two years of life, showing months 1–5 (top row) and regular intervals afterwards (bottom) from three different angles. While the young brain is constantly growing, it’s growing at a faster rate (warmer colours) during the first six months. The researchers investigated further, analysing the scans from 235 healthy children and looking at how 27 individual regions of their cerebellums change – finding, for example, that changes in specific ‘lobules’ corresponded with milestones in fine motor skills. This data could be used to pinpoint developmental windows for further study, or even to diagnose health issues or injuries during a toddler’s early life.

Written by John Ankers

Image from work by Ya Wang and Liangjun Chen, and colleagues

Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA: UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Cell Reports, April 2023

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#science #biomedicine #brains #brain development #developmental biology #babies #brain #mri #magnetic resonance imaging #motor skills

[thefiresofpompeii]

session with the psychiatrist today and he finalised getting me a s*roquel prescription… upon a google i discovered that one of the most common side effects is supposedly weight gain so now i am actually considering the preferred alternative option of recovery which is k*lling m*self

#he is 1. russian 2. the sessions are being paid for and monitored by my father #i tried calmly and reasonably explaining to him that i do not suffer from bipolar disorder and that #the prevalent part of the symptoms which cause me direct discomfort or suffering in my day to day #life most closely correspond to adult ‘female’ adhd and autism; and that the #only psychiatric pharmaceuticals which would cause a legitimate positive impact on my life would be those prescribed to ADHD patients; #which means that what he really should be doing is writing me a reference form to speed up the diagnosis process. his response? #‘you have labelled your issues with these developmental disorders to absolve yourself of a responsibility to heal from them; since; unlike #mental illnesses; they are not temporary and cannot be cured; only alleviated’ #ok mental illness isn’t temporary either; total recovery is nigh impossible. plus; i don’t want meds for a cure. i want meds to be able to #manage and live like a functioning adult human being. as in; be able to concentrate on what i am invested in; to ameliorate skills and put #in an ounce of effort instead of floating mindlessly without concrete goals or desires #okay maybe i need depression meds. MAYBE. but i have a sneaking suspicion that the moment i start taking adhd medication and become #far more productive and accomplished by my own standards; my depressive state will begin to dissipate without psychiatric intervention #jamie.txt #tw ed implied #antipsych