The meaning of normal development means what is expected from that specific person at that certain age.

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The meaning of normal development means what is expected from that specific person at that certain age. For example, a child should know how to read at the age of five to six but it is a learning process so a child could learn to read small and limited words at the age three to four years, depending on the child’s intellectual development.

Delayed development could be expresses in this example as well, say the child did not know how to read limited and small words at the age of eight to nine years, this could be said this an example of delayed development, from an intellectual perspective.

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Normal development in the social perspective, E.G., a child 0-3 years should be familiar of family members, such as mother, father, brothers and sisters. The child should know how to interact and communicate within the family. The child learns primary socialisation through family.

Delayed development in the social perspective, take for example, the child was abandoned from the family and did not learn or had not been given the chance to interact or communicate with family members. This will cause great social problems with people, how to communicate with people without learning primary socialisation as the first step ...

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