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child development, the growth of perceptual, emotional, intellectual, and behavioral capabilities and functioning during childhood. The term childhood denotes that period in the human lifespan from the acquisition of language at one or two years to the onset of adolescence at 12 or 13 years. A brief treatment of child development follows. For full treatment, see human behaviour: Theories of development. The physical growth of children is treated in human development. The end of infancy and the onset of childhood are marked by the emergence of speech at one to two years of age. Children make enormous progress in language ...(100 of 433 words)

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