Task 7 Children learn a lot though their play. Play promotes a child’s development‚ learning‚ creativity and independence. Play also keeps children healthy and active – these habits which may carry on into adulthood. Play also fosters social interaction and helps children to understand the people and places in their lives‚ learn about their environment and develop a sense of community. Play also helps socially excluded children to interact with others. Play also helps children to find out about
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Support Children and Young People’s Health and Safety Outcome 1 1) When planning for young people you need to take several factors into account to make sure the environment and services are safe. The first factor is the individual needs‚ ages and abilities of the children and young people. This requires you to work out staff to children ratio’s to make sure there is legally enough staff for the number of children present and to ensure all children will have supervision. Ratio numbers will
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Giana Castorani PSYC235 Brief It is widely recognized that communication is at the heart of child development- be it cognitive‚ social‚ emotional or behavioral (Vygotsky‚ 1978).Children ’s early communication signals consist of bodily movements‚ facial expressions‚ gestures‚ cries and coos. These early signals eventually become speech-like sounds‚ then words‚ and then sentences. Children develop these more adult-like and more easily recognized ways of communicating through exploring their
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PROMOTE COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S…… 1. – Understand why effective communication is important in the work setting 1.1 - Identify the different reasons people communicate Communication is important within the work place as it help to develop relationships with both service users and service providers. It enables services users to feel confident‚ protected and help them to trust in their carers and services providers. Communicating with colleagues and
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Children and young people often experience many things which have a direct impact on their development; things such as their family environment and structure‚ personality‚ hospital visits‚ childcare arrangements‚ and culture. Family Environment Of the environmental influences‚ the family has the most profound impact on child development. Family stability can be described in many ways. Traditionally it is defined in terms family structure (for example‚ single parenthood‚ extended families
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The social-emotional‚ cognitive and physical benefits of physical activity During childhood our body and mind changes very fast. I believe that nowadays parents focus more on the brain developement of their children than their physical activity. When I was a little girl - over 20 years ago - we spent most of our time outside playing‚ running and enjoying fresh air and being in movement. Physical activity of children can secure them health and well being in their adulthood as well as teach
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Time 9.20 am / setting in the classroom on the literacy table- phonics activity The teacher instructs the children to find better words than “said” that we can replace it with. The teacher asks Michael “what do you do when you want to tell your friend something but don’t want anybody to hear?” he replies “I would whisper in his ear”‚ the teacher praises him and says well done. The teacher asks how else do we talk? Michael replies “sometimes we shout at people when we are angry”‚ he turns around and
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How does ICT Support Children’s Learning & Development T he technical advances of the last thirty years and the introduction of the internet‚ globalisation has made the world a smaller place and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become increasingly important part of everyday life. Today‚ it is reported that over eighty percent of households have a personal computer (PC)‚ with sixty eight percent Internet enabled. (Marketresearch.com‚ 17/05/09) Subsequently‚ government has
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of the theories of development and how the frameworks to support development can influence practice: Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Jean Piaget believed that intelligence is a process that helps an organism adapt to its environment. His “Cognitive-Developmental Theory” suggested four major periods of cognitive development. Piaget’s influence created a revolution in human development theory. He proposed the existence of four major stages‚ or “periods‚” during which children and adolescents are
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The Effects of Neglect on Young Children Young children who are often times neglected tend to suffer from the poor maintenance of physical health‚ psychological complications‚ and social and behavioral troubles. In 2006 the U.S. department of health and human services estimated 905‚000 children are neglected or abused just in that year alone. Abuse and neglect can cause major difficulties that can last a lifetime. Not all abused or neglected children will have these lifelong problems it all depends
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