506.4 ‘Children and young people naturally pass through a number of stages as they grow and develop. Often‚ they will also be expected to cope with changes such as movement from primary to secondary school and‚ for children with disabilities or chronic ill health‚ from children’s to adults’ services. Such changes are commonly referred to as transitions. Some children may have to face very particular and personal transitions not necessarily shared or understood by all their peers. These include:
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Describe‚ analyse and evaluate how psychological theory can support individuals with additional needs within an environment. The wide range of Special educational needs (SEN) ‚ meaning schools have to be adaptable and diverse to cater for the wide range of additional needs. This essay will briefly describe the range of SEN and outline how historical findings‚ government strategies and different psychological theories have changed the way SEN are approached. Types of SEN: ‘Autism was first described
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Piaget’s theory of learning for cognitive development says children create a schema based on their experiences‚ when something unexpected happens to the child‚ the child will adapt the schema to include the new information. Based on this theory early years schools have a child centred teaching approach. Teachers will look at the children’s needs and plan activities accordingly. Piaget’s theory has also influenced the way professionals manage children’s behaviour. For example the rewards or incentives
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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 environment
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way in which psychological and physical development continue throughout our life span. In addition to individual differences‚ development psychologists agree that development occurs in an orderly way and in different areas at the same time. However it is clear that this can happen continually or discontinually. Theories of development can influence current practice into childcare as they show us how to understand a child’s developmental processes. It can help us to identify any problems that might
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3.1) Explain how to monitor children and young people’s development using different methods. Assessment Frameworks The assessment framework is used to determine whether a child is in need and if so‚ the nature of their needs. Once the needs have been established the interventions can be put in place. Observations These can be carried out formally and informally. Information from observations on a pupil’s progress is passed onto the teacher who will then report it to the parent/carer. Information
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A child’s development is influenced culturally by the social institutions‚ customs and laws that make up a society. Society is a group of people‚ large or small‚ living together by adopting customs and organization for mutual benefit and interactive coexistence (New Zealand Tertiary College [NZTC]‚ 2014). When we hear the term ‘social’‚ we immediately connect it to other people. M. Webber defined ‘social acting’ as the sense of the action is related to others’ behavior (Weber‚ 1922 cited in Aschenbrenner
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Understand How to Support Positive Outcomes for Children and Young People-Task A My report on how social‚ economic and cultural environments can affect children/young people’s lives and outcomes. Each factor can affect a child/young person’s life; some factors can be linked together‚ which means the child/young person could have a social and economic environment to deal with. Social factors and the impacts they could have that could affect a child/young person’s life and outcomes:- Poor housing:
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Unit 303 Support learning activities In the class I work in there a 9 pupils age ranging from 5 – 6 years old. All the children are from different generic groups. Art is the specific activity I have chosen to write about‚ our topic for this term is winter/cold. We are all going to support the children to do mosaic/collage pictures representing cold. The particular child I was working with is diagnosed PMLD and has more vision in her left eye than her right eye. I prepared the different
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Understand how to Support Positive Outcomes for Children and Young People. Bii) a) The importance of designing a service that responds to the needs of the children and young people…. Why it is important to When working with Children is it always important to design a service to meet all their needs. So that they feel comfortable in their surroundings and independently develop. Services that have been put in place are good for the benefit for the Children when they start at a new Nursery. These
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