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Explore methods to boost toddlers' intellectual growth through sensory stimulation and language development. Understand cognitive skills and encourage learning through play and interaction. Discover effective strategies for speech problems in children.
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Intelligence is determined by: • Heredity • Environment • 4-7 years old: Preoperational stage • Learns by doing everyday routine things • Parents can: • Provide opportunities and use helping charts
Methods of Learning • Incidental Learning • Unplanned learning • Trial and Error Learning • Tries several solutions before finding what works
Methods of learning (cont.) • Imitation learning • Learning by watching and copying others • Direct learning • Learn from being taught, either formally or informally (school)
Providing Opportunities for sensory stimulation will enhance learning • Sight • Look at things • Dark and light • Photo albums • Touch • Feeling tour of yard • Feeling board • Recognizing things by touch only
Providing Opportunities for sensory stimulation will enhance learning • Taste • Sweet and sour • Salty and sweet • Hear • Name that sound • Animal sounds • Sound makers
Providing Opportunities for sensory stimulation will enhance learning • Smell • Distinguish odors • What’s cooking • Scratch and Sniff • Problem Solving • Opening lids • Drop-in toys • Puzzles • Stacking and nesting toys • Hide and Seek
Providing Opportunities for sensory stimulation will enhance learning • Gross Motor skills • Pick up ball • Climb and sit • Push and pull • Riding toys • Fine Motor skills • Pounding pegs • Pop beads • Blocks • Make faces
Encouraging Language Development • MODEL CORRECT LANGUAGUE • READ to them • Allow them to explore and play • Encourage communication • Talking to the child • Naming and defining • Explaining things • Respond to their attempts to talk back • Wait for a response • Correct words but, NOT scold
NEED TO KNOW • Cognitive skills for toddlers = Classify and Speech • Putting beads into groups by colors? CLASSIFY • Appropriate activity for toddlers?? DRAW • Example of intellectual development?? Acquiring language abilities & being able to follow instructions
NEED TO KNOW (cont.) • Most appropriate technique to use in helping a child with a speech problem???? Speak correctly while talking to them