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What Is Jean Piaget Deft Children

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There is no doubt that Jean Piaget’s theory raises many questions. However, his contributions are still worldwide recognized and still researched. One of Piaget’s proposals is that language was a reflection of the degree of children’s cognitive maturity. Piaget believed that action-based interaction with the environment increase formation of object concepts, separation of self from the external world, and mental representation of reality by mental images, signs, and symbols (language), (Piotrowsky, 2005). This suggestion seems to be accurate even with deft children. A study conducted by Courtin (2000) with 150 deft children, ages 5 to 8, showed that early exposure to language independently of its form, verbal or sign language plays a significant

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