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    SHC33: Promote equality and inclusion in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s 1.3 Explain how inclusive practice promotes equality and supports diversity Inclusive practice promotes a child’s right to access to equal opportunities. By ensuring that this happens promotes diversity. There are various pieces of legislation which have been put in place to promote equality and reduce discrimination. These include: • The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 • The Special Educational

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    Stage Theories of Human Development Jean Piaget believed that all children mature through a series of distinct stages in intellectual development (Coon‚ 97). Many of these ideas came from him observing his own children and how they solved different problems. He believed in the use of assimilation which is the application of existing mental patterns to new situations‚ the new situation is linked to existing mental schemes (Coon‚ 97). Piaget developed a series of stages that children go through

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    These are some of the different theories and approaches to playwork: Piaget is a cognitive constructivist theorist who believed that development occurred in stages with children using play in order to practice what they have learnt. Bruner who was an influential theorist in the area of language development thought that children learn by doing and that play is how children are able to practice what they already know and then expand upon that‚ becoming more able and adept as they grow and develop

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    Management Aptitude Analysis Kaplan University Autise Mortimer GM 500 Management Theories and Practice I Professor Jack Deem Introduction The purpose of this paper is to see what type of manager I will be‚ and from the findings from the aptitude test I will explain the results that I got. From my results I will see where I stand as a potential manager. Aptitude testing is mostly used to see what skills and strengths you posses as a person and if

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    Human growth and development is an incredibly complex process‚ influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. At certain times and for certain developments‚ genetic influences dominate‚ whereas at other times‚ environmental influences are more powerful which emphasizes the fact that genetic and environmental forces are always working together (Sigelman and Rider‚ 2009). This paper will examine that part of human growth and development which may observed in the early childhood period (preschool

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    Explain the significance of child-directed speech and the language development theories it supports and refutes Child-directed speech aims to attract and hold the baby’s attention‚ help the process of breaking down language into understandable chunks and make the conversation more predictable by keeping the conversation in the here and now and referring to things that the baby can see. Child-directed speech has a variety of features examples of these features are: higher pitch‚ repeated sentence

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    GROUP C – KNOWLEDGE BASED UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLES AND REQUIREMENTS OF ASSESSMENT 1.1 EXPLAIN THE FUNCTION OF ASSESSMENT IN LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT Assessment can be used for many different purposes‚ including to identify students’ needs‚ plan and adapt courses‚ check that learning is taking place‚ motivate students‚ acknowledge learning and measure results. Assessment is used for various purposes. * Assessment for learning: where assessment helps teachers gain insight into

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    Children’s learning and development has been influenced greatly by a wide range of psychologists and early theorists over the years‚ who have conducted a range of research methods such as‚ observations‚ experiments‚ and interviews. Without early theorists conducting this research‚ our children’s education and developmental psychology would not be where it is today. Jean Piaget was one of these many theorists. Jean Piaget was born in Neuchatel‚ Switzerland in 1896 and died in 1980. He was a scientist

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    CHOOSING A THEORY I have chosen B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson’s behaviorism and social learning theory to be the theory that I identify with most. This theory is all about learned behavior. Whether it is from a child’s peers‚ teachers or parents‚ I believe all of our actions should reflect what we would like our children or the children in our care to strive for. Reinforcing a particular behavior can cause the act or motion within this behavior to be repeated. For example if a child

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    2.1 Children’s development is influenced by a variety of different personal factors‚ such as • health status • disability • sensory impairment • learning difficulties Health status: A child health status could be determined by their genes or factors such as environment‚ diet and stress this could have a big impact on the child development. A child being born into a family that both parents carry a trait of sickle cell‚ that child has one in four chance of

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