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Marisol’s son Jason had been recommended for services for almost seven months by school teacher and supporting staff. Throughout his year in Pre- K, his teacher documented several incidents which lead her to believe he needed to be evaluated for special education. He was not reaching academic milestones for his age. In response, Marisol felt that she was being pressured into rushing an evaluation and thought her son deserved to meet the milestones at his own pace. Marisol delayed the evaluation process by not submitting necessary consent and paper promptly. When asked what hopes or fears she had about special education, she expressed fears of Jason being treated different not only by teachers and peers, but by relatives and friends. She noted that she also did not feel well- informed on the process of evaluation and allocation of services when asked about what would help calm her fears. Marisol explained that she just needed a meeting where every question she had would be answered with knowledge, exactitude, and expertise. After Jason’s behavior led to a teacher injury, Marisol felt forced to allow the evaluation process to begin. Jason, who is now five years old, was placed in a twelve-to-one Kindergarten setting upon

There are many theories into how children develop and how they learn. These are extremely important as they can be applied to modern strategies used for child behaviours. Presently, learning theories are placed into 3 categories:

An explanation of the impact of current research into development and learning of babies and young children.

There are many different theories of development which we use to understand children’s behaviour, reactions and the way in which they learn.

I enjoyed learning about Piaget’s beliefs that infants are smart and active learners who adapt to experience. He theorizes there are four distinct periods of cognitive

| Piaget's first stage of cognitive development in which the infant uses its senses and motor abilities to interact with objects in the environment

Are there elements in his early history that may have had an impact on his overall cognitive development?

The author invites the reader on his own journey to understanding how the developing brain works. He learns that to facilitate recovery, the loss of

During the early years, the roles of the average child are characterised by play. Children actively explore and interact with people and objects in their world. These interactions provide the child with an understanding of control and connectedness. Children repeat actions to establish relationships between materials and objects. Students then modify their interactions to examine new relationships. During the first few years of life language develops and play evolves, from exploration to using objects to pretend and mimic activities in the world. This paper will firstly look at what play is and how it benefits children, secondly the paper will look at how play is similar and different for children with and without special education needs (SEN), thirdly the paper will explain why this knowledge of play is valuable to professionals in education, and lastly the paper will suggest recommendations on knowledge that professionals should have when supporting children in

Other infants were placed in a low-risk control group (LRC) if they had at least one sibling with typical development. The development of these reference siblings was determined by their scores on the Social Communication Questionnaire answered by their parents. HRA infants had siblings who scored at least 15 and LRC infants siblings scored less than 12. HRA infant siblings also met diagnostic criteria on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) or were diagnosed by an expert clinician. Infants were seen at 12 and 18 months as part of a larger ongoing project. At the 12-month visit, research staff administered the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scale (CSBS), the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL), and infants and parents had 10-minutes of free play with infant-appropriate toys (MC). At the 18-month visit, staff ran the MSEL and the ADOS. CSBS is a semi-structured interaction between an infant and examiner designed to assess the infant’s communicative and symbolic behavior ranges; in the context of the present study, it was used for scoring infant gesture competency. MSEL is a standardized developmental assessment for infants from birth through 68 months that measures skills in Gross Mother and four cognitive domains: Visual reception, Fine Motor, Expressive and Receptive Language. ADOS is a semi-structured play-based interaction used to assess participants’ communicative and

Everyday we are developing no matter our age, but it is how we develop children that will tell a tremendous amount an individual. How a child developments is fundamentally important at a young age as it affects all aspect of their lives once the child matures. Throughout the class, we looked at many theorists during the course of the semester as well as looked at many articles pertaining to the concepts of the development of children. The theorists and articles opened up our minds to a world that we have never seen before and concepts about child development we have never been taught but have seen in the practical work we do every week. What makes humans unique is the ability that we have to interpret the language being used, as Lois Bloom

Developmental Psychology has widened my perspective and knowledge of the nature of development from humans’ infancy to adolescence and emerging adulthood. Although I have learned about biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes and periods of development, I am especially interested in socioemotional development in infancy because it is the foundation for a child’s future development. That is to say, if children have a healthy socioemotional development from infancy, they will have a healthy life later on. By understanding the developmental process in infancy, I will be fully prepared when I have children or when my family’s members do.

In this article reviewed titled “Play Assessments and Developmental Skills in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders” written by J. Pierucci, A. Barber, A. Gilpin, M. Crisler, and L. Klinger research diagnostic evaluations that include the assessment of play. Understanding the role of play in regards to the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is essential in developing communication skills to enhance social interaction is essential. The authors examined various aspects of play, draw from play competencies, and design interventions for successful outcomes of goals. In addition, how to measure the correlation between play and developmental skills that correlates with specific play composites. These essential dynamics provided correlation between play behaviors in the development of social skills of children with autism.

There are many different theories when it comes to how children learn best, but when bits and pieces are taken from each a strong theory can be crafted for each individual child. These theories come from information processing, Jean Piaget, Lev Vgotsky, and Maria Montessori. Information processing looks at children’s scripts and how long-term memory works to help children learn, Piaget uses the concepts of object permanence and egocentrism to explain the ways children view different things, Vygotsky focuses on the zone of proximal development and scaffolding to give children the best environment to lean, and lastly, Montessori uses a trained adult and self-directed play to enhance learning in young children. These concepts combined are great ways to help a child develop cognitively and it is important to understand each one.

Learning has been described by Howe (1980) as ‘cumulative’ i.e. whatever we learn at any time is influenced by previous learning. It is also clear that developmental processes and learning processes are closely interlinked. Whilst psychologists agree that learning is affected by past experience and is relatively permanent there are differing theories about exactly what changes when learning takes place and what mechanisms are involved. An important issue is whether the focus is on overt behavioural changes (that which can be seen) or covert, cognitive changes (the unseen change in thoughts). The concept of learning is broad and there are different psychological theories as to what is involved in that learning process.