Routes for learning: Routemap

The Routemap provides an overview of the 3 strands of development: cognitive development, communication and social interaction, and environmental interaction and shows the most important milestones as orange boxes.

Every box on the Routemap is numbered for ease of reference, but although behaviours which are developmentally earlier have lower numbers the numbering does not represent an expected sequence in which behaviours are likely to be learned or in which they should be taught. Learners should not be expected to achieve them in strict numerical order.

The evidence suggests that every learner is likely to pass through the key milestones, although the routes they take may vary according to their physical, sensory and learning needs.

The explanatory note outlines the changes made during the updating process.

Routemap