- To cater for each child's developmental needs, education facilities must have a range of resources available. A safe, interesting and stimulating environment, in which suitable resources are made available to students will enable students to perform at the appropriate levels and will act to encourage and support the developmental needs of individual students. Children should be encouraged to use a range of resources to provide them with the greatest possible chance of developing fine and gross motor skills and other skills.
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It includes such things as perception, categorisation, understanding, memory, logical reasoning and problem solving. Cognitive abilities change and develop over the course of childhood and adolescence.
Stages of intellectual development in children and teenagers include:
1. At this stage children's thought processes become more logical.
2. Children become more able to attend to important stimuli and ignore or disregard irrelevant stimuli
3. They understand concepts of right and wrong and will begin to seek external validation for their ideas
4. Children will begin to think before they act
5. They are able to classify objects into 2 categories at the same time.
6. Children become capable of conservation and understand that if nothing is added or subtracted the amount stays the same
7. Children acquire