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Cognitive: By 12 months their brain
has matured enough for toddlers to recall actions and
events that occurred a few hours or even a day earlier.
Toddlers are beginning to understand that symbols stand
for the objects and things they experience.
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Fine Motor skill: Fine motor skills
involve the many small muscles in the fingers, hands
and wrists over which the toddler is very slowly but
surely gaining more control and coordination. Strings
small beads, unscrews lid, puts tiny object into a container,
places pegs in a pegboard, grasps pencil between thumb
and forefinger
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Gross Motor skill: Develop new
motor skills such as running, jumping and climbing.
Each new motor skill they practice develops from skills
already learned, as neural circuits in the brain become
more highly coordinated as muscles grow progressively
stronger.
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Language: Between 13 and 20 months
a toddler's brain becomes even more focused or specialized
in the way it responds to words. Interestingly, researchers
have noticed that this vocabulary explosion occurs at
about the same time as the increase in the number of
connections
between brain cells.
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Social- Emotional: The 12-18 month
period is a time when inhibition (controlling behavior)
is just beginning to take hold. Around 18 months of
age, toddlers display signs that they are developing
an awareness of self. This self-control comes with time
and brain maturation, and in particular, development
of the frontal lobes of the brain.
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