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INTELLECTUAL/ COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF TODDLERS. 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
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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