Educational Resources in Infancy

Educational Resources in Infancy Student’s Name Institution Course Code: Course Name Professor’s Name Submission Date The concept of physical development in infants can be understood as a critical health indicator that is examined using various health outcomes such as muscular and skeletal health, cognitive abilities, and motor development, among other indicators. Physical development interrelates with various other aspects, particularly cognitive ones. Gross motor skills and fine motor skills are categories of physical development that infants go through and improve from infancy through adulthood. Gross motor skills involve larger movements of the feet, arms, legs, and torso that help an infant achieve coordination and balance. Fine motor skills are more precise, smaller movements that involve the use of fingers and hands (Thunder et al., 2021). Cognitive development is also established as an essential health indicator during infancy. According to Pakpahan and Saragih (2022), environmental factors and personal experiences affect infants’ development to a great extent, and they could have far-reaching implications for the individual’s life in adulthood as well. Emotional development integrates with cognitive development to ensure the child starts to have an awareness of their existence and the existence of others. It is defined as how the infant feels about themselves and how he or she copes with life (Ash Green School, 2021). Educational programs define contemporary childhood despite their hotly debated and unclear cognitive effects. Educational programs can be classified as part of environmental factors that influence brain development. Although much of brain development happens automatically due to genetically predetermined trends, much of it is influenced by environmental fact...