Those with advanced bone ages typically hit a growth spurt early on but stop growing sooner, while those with delayed bone ages hit their growth spurt later than normal. For most people, their bone age is the same as their biological age but for some individuals, their bone age is a couple of years older or younger. A child's current height and bone age can be used to predict adult height. The "bone age" of a child is the average age at which children reach various stages of bone maturation. These changes can be seen by x-ray techniques. As a person grows from fetal life through childhood, puberty, and finishes growth as a young adult, the bones of the skeleton change in size and shape. In his spare time, he enjoys acting, cooking, board games and video games.Bone age is the degree of maturation of a child's bones. Much of his work focuses on high functioning autism, problematic technology usage, social anxiety, trauma and games. In addition, he is the clinical director of, a national nonprofit focused on mental health and the gamer community, runs a private psychology practice in Bellevue offering individual therapy and psychological assessment to adolescents and adults, and provides parent and clinician trainings on technology in psychology. Boccamazzo is a doctor of clinical psychology and social skills coach with Aspiring Youth. Ironically, this lowering of (certain) expectations can lead to the increase of skills that parents are seeking.ĭr. If they are looking for him to master typical 6-year-old skills, they can praise them instead of being frustrated at Stevie’s lack of “obvious” skills. It can help parents have realistic expectations of where his challenges are right now, in order to help build foundational skills for future success. An important clarification is this adjustment of expectations is not done to convince them that Stevie cannot succeed in the future. However, they shouldn’t expect a 10-year-old’s emotional or behavioral control. Their behavior should reinforce, challenge and support his behavior in that domain. For Stevie, his parents can expect him to use the language of a 10-year-old.
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I often coach parents on how to think about their child’s developmental age in different domains. Parents and professionals should work together to identify what areas correlate to the child’s chronological and developmental ages. What can parents do? Think in different domains. Adults get more angry as his skills continue to fall behind.Stevie starts viewing himself as “broken” or “dumb” and stops trying.Stevie gets frustrated that, despite his attempts, he continues to fail and get punished.They get angry at him for not meeting that expectation.Adults expect 10-year-old behavior when he legitimately cannot give it in all ways.This potentially creates a problematic cycle: Often, adults and other kids expect Stevie to “act his age” because they see a 10-year-old and expect 10-year-old behavior. Stevie is going to have a challenging time in school and in making friends. While he has the vocabulary and memory of a typical 10-year-old, his ability to read body language and control impulses (such as interrupting people or angry outbursts) is more typical for a 6-year-old. Let’s consider 10-year-old “Stevie,” who has a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. Recognizing that a child’s developmental and chronological ages can be different is an important first step. However, it can be a problem when the two don’t match.
If a person’s developmental and chronological ages match, we tend to not notice because it’s expected. Consider behaviors and learning tasks that a typical 1st grader displays: learning to read, basic addition, cooperative play and taking turns. Developmental age measures someone’s behavioral, cognitive and physical development in contrast to the typical person in the same age range. Determining a child’s developmental age is trickier. When a small child holds up her fingers and says, “I’m this many old,” she is telling us her chronological age (if she’s right, of course). But how are they important to parents? Chronological age is pretty straightforward: it is simply how physically old your child is. She emphasized how important they would be in all of our future careers-she was right. A psychologist at my first internship rotation hammered into all the students who would cross her path the concepts of developmental age and chronological age.
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