with services such as behavioral and speech therapy for children, legal aid, and housing. Through these referrals, I provided concrete information as to where to apply for these services. I also conducted psychosocial assessment on children with developmental, speech or behavior disabilities by providing individual play therapy for children age two to four. After working with this agency for the semester, I noticed that I wanted to work with a population that has a stake in their wellbeing rather than
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48600 - Building Forts Builds Intellect School is out. The facts are in. More research reveals the value of play-based learning for healthy intellectual development of young children. And, fort building certainly constitutes play. Looking at academic and intellectual skills, researchers agree that both play an important role in a child’s development. However, more evidence arises to indicate that a heavier emphasis on inborn intellectual dispositions in the early years reaps better long-term results
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1. Describe the three stages of psychosocial development and provide examples of how to support each one. Trust; The infant is dependent on the parents for sustenance and comfort and an example of how to support it is by meeting the needs of the child by providing reliability, care, and affection. Autonomy; the child develops the sense of personal control of his physical skills and a sense of independence. We can support those needs by allowing the child to explore his limits and abilities and encouraging
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Introduction: Life Course is one of the major theories in investigating the lives of individuals inside the cultural and social framework. It is a pattern of socially defined, age-graded events and roles, which are subject to historical change in culture and social structure (Elder 1999). Over the past several decades, life course has changed immensely throughout the world- where once there were large family size and everyone depended on the income of one family member, now the family size has shrunken
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maintain positive emotional well-being even with all the adversities they had experienced, and this shows resilience (Bundy-Fazioli et al., 2013). Grandparents do have negative outcomes at times, but their ability to adapt and be flexible can be associated with resilient individuals (Bundy-Fazioli et al., 2013). Robinson and Wilks (2006) conducted a study with custodial grandparents to look at issues regarding being the caregiver of a grandchild. A sample size of 25 grandparents was obtained
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At my placement, most of the children like playing outdoors. They like playing soccer, baseball, basketball, dodgeball or passing the ball. This is a good form of physical activity for children, as it keeps their body moving and they use their gross motor skills effectively. Additionally, they also like playing indoors with Legos, and board games. For example, Alan and Dan like to build robots. Paul likes to use his creative imagination into building towers and bridges. When the other children
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Over the past week or so I got the opportunity to observe a Pre-k room. While I was in this room I observed the teacher, daily activities, and the reactions of the children in the room. Mrs. Debbie started off each day with a sit down breakfast. During this time each child is given a task and is considered a helper. For example, MJ's daily task was to pass out napkins while Luke's job was to clean and wipe up the tables at the end of breakfast. Mrs. Debbie gives out daily tasks to practice independence
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A Child’s Sense of Morality Children develop their sense of morality through varying influences, such as their parents or sources outside of the home. As displayed in Robert Cole’s essay, “I Listen to My Parents and I Wonder What They Believe,” children tend to listen to their parents more than any other source for moral guidance. Although multiple societal influences contribute to a child’s perception of morality, parents’ decisions shape a child’s moral beliefs. A parent’s decisions shape a child’s
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Within the stage of infancy a teacher needs to first remember that each infant will develop at their own pace. Each teacher is required to provide excellent care for all infants in the classroom in order to meet each of their individual needs. While making certain to be responsive to each infant and their family. The classroom’s physical layout should foster each infant’s level of curiosity as they discover their immediate surroundings and the objects in it without any limitation (McDevitt & Ellis
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There are many factors that affect children’s development such as their growth, sleep, diet, their medical condition such as disease and illness and most of all the environment. The environment is a place where children grow up and also the place where their learning begins. An enabling environment is outdoors as well as indoors where children are provided with space, resources, displays, accessibility and stability. These are designed to help children’s physical, emotional, mental and health and
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