Research two of the topics listed below. Use your textbook, the PowerPoint, and

Research two of the topics listed below. Use your textbook, the PowerPoint, and other online resources, and BE SURE to cite your sources for each.
Topic Choices: Physical Development During the First Two Years
Discuss physical growth in infancy and compare discontinuity in infancy with discontinuity in adulthood.
Describe the physical characteristics of the neonate.
Describe and give the history of the Apgar Scale for neonate assessment.
Describe infant sleep patterns in terms of type and duration.
Describe synaptogenesis, synaptic pruning, and plasticity of the brain in the first two years of life.
The sensorimotor stage and babies typical visual, auditory, tactile, taste, and olfactory acuity.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): Possible causes, prevention, and recent statistics comparing two countries.
Define and explain the cephalocaudal principle and the proximodistal principle.
The development of motor skills during the first years considering gender differences.
Trends and the pros and cons of breast versus bottle feeding and infant’s nutritional needs
Trends and the effects of poor nutrition and over-nutrition during infancy.
How poverty can affect a young child’s brain development.
Low-birth-weight infants and related consequences.
Current trends in infant mortality in the United States and elsewhere.
The major survival reflexes and primitive reflexes in newborns.
For each topic:
Introduce each of the topics you are researching
Share your findings,
Share some images or video,
Explain what you have learned and what you think is important about the topics,
Cite your sources.