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Seven to Twelve Years

Seven Years (84 –95 months)


General reflex development

Arises from supine to standing in 1-1.5 sec.

Gross Motor/Equilibrium

  • Stands on 1 foot, eyes closed, 3 seconds
  • Can hop and jump accurately into small squares
  • Walks 2" wide balance beam
  • Bilateral Integration

  • Can tap floor alternately with feet
  • Ties bow & knot
  • Fine Motor

  • Grips pencil tightly, often close to tip. Pressure may be heavy
  • Good sequential finger opposition (1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Cuts out paper doll
  • Drops 20 coins, one at a time, into open box in 16 sec.
  • Accurately taps swinging suspended ball 2/5 tries
  • 7 ½ years copies a diamond:
  • Visual Perception

  • b-d, p-q confusion resolved
  • builds 6-block pyramid from memory
  • Sensory Development

    Tactile with vision occluded can reproduce ---, X, O drawn on back of hand ½ trials

    Cognitive

  • Can read a clock correctly to the nearest quarter hour
  • Reads mechanically; may skip words
  • Notices parts missing from pictures
  • Knows value of coins
  • Knows sequence of months, seasons, years
  • Names days of the week
  • Body Scheme

  • Good jumping jacks
  • Can knit eyebrows
  • 7 ½ years stabilizes arms and trunk against much resistance
  • Knows left and right on self
  • Language

  • Repeats 5 digits in correct order
  • Repeats 3 digits backward
  • 80% know comparative relationships (bigger than)
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    Eight Years

    Equilibrium

    Crouches on tiptoes without falling 1/3 trials

    Bilateral Integration

  • Good 2-2, 2-1, 1-2 hop
  • Can run into moving jump rope but cannot alter step
  • Eye-hand coordination

  • Laces 8 beads in 20 sec.
  • Places 10 pairs of matchstick in box in 16 sec.
  • Visual Perception

  • Identifies heavily embedded familiar figures
  • Notices and labels component parts of stimulus more than does younger child
  • Capable of attending to both whole and part
  • Self-Care

  • Dresses self completely
  • Can use household tools like a hammer or screwdriver
  • Can perform household chores: dusting taking out trash
  • Cognitive (8-9 years)

  • Can count backwards from 20-1
  • Can repeat the days of the week; months of the year in order
  • Knows the date
  • Can give change for a quarter
  • More time conscious; concerned about getting to places on time
  • Body scheme

  • Eyes closed, points right and left
  • Can wrinkle forehead
  • Distinguish right and left on self and others
  • Social/Emotional (8-9 years)

  • More self-critical
  • Hard to quiet down after recess
  • Afraid of failure; feels shame if they do something wrong
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    Nine Years

    Equilibrium

  • Runs 16-17 ft/ sec
  • Jumps over rope 15" high 2/3 trials
  • Jumps, clapping hands 3 times, 1/3 trials
  • Visual Perception

  • Closure figure recognized and seen as incomplete
  • Notices wholes & parts simultaneously in figures composed of familiar objects
  • Writes in cursive most of the time
  • Body Scheme

    9 ½ years discriminates left & right on facing person

     

    Ten Years

    Equilibrium

    Hops 50 ft. on 1 foot in 5-6 sec.

    Eye-hand coordination

  • Draws 3-dimensional geometric figures
  • Judges & intercepts pathways of small balls thrown from a distance
  • Self Care

    Cooks simple meal with supervision and sets table

     

    Eleven Years

    Equilibrium

    Standing broad jump 4 ½-5 ft.

    Cognitive

    Counts change for purchase costing more than $1.00

     

    Twelve Years

    Equilibrium

    Standing high jump 3 ft.

    Eye-hand coordination

    Anticipates locomotion & manual responses to rapidly moving objects (where to catch ball whose complete trajectory is not observable)

     

    Ten – Twelve Years

    Social/Emotional

  • Uses the telephone mostly for practical purposes
  • Can wash and dry own hair
  • Can take responsibility for raising pets
  • Can be left alone for one hour or two
  • Can do some cooking and some sewing

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