Environmental Influence On Child Development

The Influence of ASD, Poverty, and Parents’ Disorder on Child Development
Most researches about child development focuses on the typical development or typical environment. However, the environment that surrounding children varies, and even little differences could make large developmental different in each children. For example, it is believed that children have an ability to communicate with others if they learn language. However, there are many children who cannot communicate with others because of lack of language development. Especially, children with disabilities often have developmental delays and the delay influence their entire development. In addition, the environment influences on children’s development. Therefore, the influence

Many theories and researches suggest that many parents and teacher should make appropriate environment for children’s development as much as possible. However, giving such appropriate environment is not easy for families that have not enough income, because they can’t get sufficient food, clothing, and shelter (Dearing, Berry & Zaslow, 2006). Living in poverty during early childhood leads children to negative development. In fact, compared with non-poor children, poor children are more likely to be exposed many bad environments for grow up such as no playground, child care, health care, parks and after-school program around them (Dearing et al., 2006). Furthermore, poor children have fewer opportunities such as reading a book, play with toys, going to museum (Dearing et al., 2006). The IQ score of poor children also lower than non-poor children (Dearing et al., 2006). Thus, it is important to know that poverty largely impact on children’s development not only social development, but also cognitive development (Dearing et al., 2006; Henninger&

For example, Children at familial high risk for eating disorder have cognitive differences when they are 8–10 years-old (Kothari, Rosinska, Treasure & Micali, 2014). In fact, the children of woman with anorexia nervosa (AN) have poorer motor skills at 18 months (Kothari et al., 2014). The children of woman with AN also have lower independence and less interaction with other children (Kothari et al., 2014). At age 4 years, the children of women with AN have poorer perceptual, social, motor, logical thinking , planning and reasoning skills (Kothari et al.,