A Study on Various Factors Affecting Development During the First Two Years of Life

The present study was carried out on a sample of 194 children in the age group of 0-2 years. Randomly chosen items under Gross and fine Motor skills, language and socio personal developmental mile stones were analyzed in relation to socio-medical variables to see if there is any impact of these factors on the average age of attainment of each developmental milestone. From the analysis it was found that males in most of the motor milestones were early attainers than females but reverse was found to be true in language and socio-personal milestones. Literacy status of the mother had appositive impact on the attainment of various milestones whereas feeding pattern was not found to have any significant impact on the attainment of these milestones between the two genders. Income too was not found to play any significant role in achieving various developmental milestones