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and hitting. They are starting to make “a group”. The cooperation and sharing have not appeared among the children. They will
accept help from the adults only in form of suggestion. Bowen, 2000: http:www. speech- language-therapy.
comdevel1.htm
c. The Three and the Three and a Half Year Old
Three years old children are conform to their own life, happy, sharing and comfortable interpersonal relation ships children. On the
other hand, three and a half years old children tend to have trouble with themselves, and also with almost everybody around them.
Bowen, 2000: http: www. speech- language-therapy. comdevel1.htm
1 Motor Behavior
Children have good balance for their body. They are also able to control their own speed. For three years old children, they can
jump with one foot leading the other, stand on one foot for a moment, and ride their tricycles. Their hands are skillful enough.
They can build ten blocks tower from cubes. However, for three and a half years old children, the adding of age does not mean the
adding of ability. Children in this age have less secure feeling, and they are less effective physically. They frequently fall. The
common characteristics of these children are stumbling, trembling, and tic like behavior in comparison of adults’
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perception of perfectly normal children. The cause of those characteristics is children’s feeling of insecure. Bowen, 2000:
http:www.speech-language-therapy.com devel1.htm
2 Adaptive Behavior
Three years old children are able to imitate the steps of cubes building process, while for three and a half years old children;
they are able to copy the modelform of cubes building. Bowen, 2000: http:www.speech-language-therapy.comdevel1.htm
3 Language Behavior
Three and half years old children have more words and greater command of language than three years old children. In this
period three and a half years old, children do conversation with other children. They not only talk with adults, but also talk with
other children. Children will give better response if the adults give instruction by whispering than normal voice of tone. Even
though they still produce infantile articulation, the sound is quiet clear understandable. Bowen, 2000: http:www.speech-
language-therapy.comdevel1.htm
2. Children’s Cognitive Development
