Explain The 7 Irreducible Needs Of Infants And Toddlers

7 Irreducible Needs of infants and toddlers

We look at the 7 Irreducible needs of infants and toddlers. The first few years of life is very important for a child’s development. A child’s brain is growing at a fast steady pace.

Many things can contribute to the child’s development and learning. Some things are language barriers, health, income and biological factors. We do have control over some of these things. A child’s development and learning starts at home from the first day they are born. Parents and family are the child’s first and most important teacher. AN example of this is with language. When a child/infant/toddler hears people talking, verbalizing and reading to the child, they seem to have more of a language development. They can verbalize, talk and communicate much better than a child who hasn’t had that exposure. A child entered the preschool classroom at about 47 months. She didn’t know how to speak. Her parents couldn’t speak or even hear. The parents couldn’t talk to their child, so the child didn’t develop any language skills to be able to speak to others. This child was classified as delayed but after being in the program for a few short months, the child was able to start speaking and made tremendous progress over that school year.
We as teachers, first need to respect the differences between us and the parents, which include culture and language. These are probably the biggest reasons. We need to model relationships relationships for these children. We also need to model relationships with parents. We need to help parents find resources within the community that they may need or even