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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At birth‚a child has the primitive reflexes of sucking‚ swallowing‚ grasping and stepping when held upright on a hard surface. It will recognise and be soothed by its mothers voice. As it grows and develops it will begin to smile‚ show facial exprerssions‚ control his own head unsupported. The child will also be intrigued by its own hands and be able to hold an object for a few seconds. At six months it will be able to sit with support‚ roll over and lift its upper body away from the floor with
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Unit 331 Understand child and young person development Outcome 1 Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth – 19 years. 1.2 Explain the difference between sequence of development and rate of development and why the difference is important. Sequence means that there is a definite pattern to a child developing e.g. a toddler being able to walk before they can run (sequence of development would be the order in which the development happens). Rate means
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Unit 024 – Promote child and Young Person Development Outcome 1) Be able to assess the development needs of children or young people and prepare a development plan 1. Explain the factors that need to be taken into account when assessing development You can assess a child’s development by doing a variety of different observations; narrative‚ tracker‚ language and video but you must also take into account confidentiality. Before carrying out observations you must get permission from the parent’s
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It is possible to monitor the development of a child or young person using the following methods: • Standard measurements. This is used to monitor the physical development of a child to ensure they are growing at the expected rate. This is normally carried out by health officials. • Observations. 1. Informal. These are usually carried out on a daily basis during your normal work with the children. This type of observation may not be recorded as you will normally discuss it with the class teacher
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Introduction Communication is a two way process which allows us to express our thoughts and feelings to others‚ while allowing us in turn to understand what others are trying to convey to us. Communication involves speech and language (verbal) as well as facial expression‚ gesture and body language (non-verbal). Communication is an essential life skill for children and young people and it underpins their social‚ emotional and educational development. (Bercow 2008) To communicate effectively we
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Understand Child and Young Person Development. Core 3.1 1.1 The term “Sequence” of child development refers to the how we expect a child to develop from the day it was born to the age of 19. Child Development is the biological‚ physiological and all the emotional changes that happen during these formative years as the child goes from dependency to autonomy. These changes could be hugely influenced by genetics‚ events that occur whilst in the womb and during prenatal development and are usually
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1: understand child and young person development 1.1 Explain the sequences and rate of each aspect of development from birth – 19 years; Children and young people development consists of physical‚ communicaion and intellectual‚ social‚ emotional and behavioural. Physical development from birth to 19years of age; A baby first physical development will show them moving their head‚ hands and feet. A baby will then start to crawl and walk. Between the ages of 2- 4 year a child will have greatly
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EYMP5 -1.2 Explain how speech‚ language and communication skills support each of the following areas in children`s development: * learning * emotional * behaviour * social Communication and being able to communicate is the foundation for many other areas of children`s development. Children need to be able to use and understand speech and language in order to learn. For example‚ being able to ask‚ `What`s that?` or‚ `How do I do this?` and being able to understand the reply is
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Understand Child and Young Person Development Unit 022.1.2 Why is the difference important? The difference is important because you need to understand in the sequence & rate of child development so that you can have good knowledge and understanding of child development. The sequence of development is the same for all children. It is important what most children can do at certain age. The rate of development lets us how long a child takes to get to each stage.This can vary. If the
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