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developmentally

developmentally

16 5.2
In a way that relates to how a person grows or learns
  • adverb
  • /dɪˌvɛl.əpˈmɛn.təl.i/
translation icon : para el desarrollo
  • More recently, nongraded classrooms have been promoted as part of developmentally appropriate practices.
  • developmentally appropriate
  • developmentally appropriate practice
  • developmentally appropriate activities

Allowing for that is so developmentally beneficial.

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Examples

  • 4. Interventions should be developmentally appropriate and should fit the developmental needs of the youth.

    Academic text (1994)
  • However, if classes are truly developmentally appropriate, what is the need for these programs?

    Academic text (1992)
  • Mary and I used a variety of developmentally appropriate strategies to build our working relationship.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Each task chosen is developmentally appropriate and success is involved in its completion.

    Academic text (2011)
  • An essential element in this approach is planning a curriculum that is developmentally appropriate, individualized, and gender responsive.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Right now, they're only saying that she's seriously developmentally delayed, a diagnosis that simply summarizes the problem.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Parents often expose their children to things that they're not developmentally capable of handling yet.

  • We want to teach our children about death in a healthy, developmentally appropriate way.

  • There does need to be developmentally appropriate conversation, but I really believe that that should be up to the parent.

Synonyms

ontogenetically
vsdevelopmentally
  • Specialized
9.9

During the development of an animal or person from birth to adulthood

is broader covering physical emotional and intellectual growth beyond organisms

Compounds

People who have difficulty learning and understanding things

How Related

directly
1.9
developmentally
16 5.2
indirectly
78 4.2
tangentially
6 7.7

Surface Forms

developmentally positive

Morphology

developmentally = developmental (transparent) = develop + ment + al + ly

The word 'developmentally' is transparently derived from 'developmental' by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly'.

Etymology

Developmentally comes from develop, a word that once meant 'unwrap' or 'unfold', like a flower opening, and the parts -ment and -ally add the idea of a result and 'in a way'. So developmentally means 'in the way' something 'grows or changes'.