Child Development Deep Dive: Middle Childhood (6-8 year olds)

Learning Objectives

• Participants will identify key developmental milestones for children ages 6–8 across social, emotional, language, cognitive, and motor domains.
• Participants will recognize common problem behaviors observed during middle childhood and discuss developmental and environmental factors that may contribute to these behaviors.
• Participants will describe evidence based programming strategies for children ages 6–8, including practical approaches to caregiver pairing and the use of Behavioral Skills Training (BST).