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| Developmental Tasks of Early Childhood |
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- Fine/gross motor skills
- Language development
- Cognitive development
- Increased self understanding
- Exposure to different people and environments |
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| First Stage of Preoperational Thought (2-4) |
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- Symbolic functions, scribbled drawings rep. real objects
- Thinking=acting
- Limited by egocentricism and animism |
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| Second Stage of Preoperational Thought (4-7) |
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- Intuitive thought: child uses primitive reasoning but is still centric in thought
- Lacks conservation
- Why questions |
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| Zone of Proximal Development |
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| Range of tasks too difficult for children to master alone, but which can be learned with the guidance and assistance of adults or more skilled children |
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| Changing the level of support during teaching session |
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| Vygotsky Teaching Strategies |
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- Use child's ZPD in teaching
- More skilled peers as tutors
- Monitor child and encourage private speech
- Place instruction in meaningful context |
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- Motor vehicle accidents
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular disease |
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| Developmental Tasks for Children with Down Syndrome |
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- Walking around 2 (range 1-4)
- First words around 2(range 1-4)
- Two word utterances around 3 (range 2-7)
- Using spoon at 29m
- Dressing independently at 7 |
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- Filling unique role in the culture
- Providing information
- Giving feedback and evaluation |
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- Solitary
- Unoccupied
- Onlooker
- Parallel
- Associative
- Cooperative play |
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- Demanding, controlling
- Rejecting, unresponsive |
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- Undemanding, uncontrolling
- Accepting, responsive |
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- Demanding, controlling
- Accepting, responsive |
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- Undemanding, uncontrolling
- Rejecting, unresponsive |
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| Social/Emotional Development in Middle/Late Childhood |
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- Increased ability to understand complex emotions
- Increased understanding of multiple emotions in single situation
- Increased ability to suppress or conceal negative emotional reactions
- Use of self-initiated strategies for redirecting feelings |
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| Involves thoughts about social matters and peer relations |
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| Dodge's Model of Social Processing |
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- Encode social cues
- Interpret social cues
- Search for response
- Select optimal response
- Enact appropriate response |
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| 1 in every 330 children in the U.S. develops cancer before the age of 19 |
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| Most Common Types of Cancer in Children |
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Definition
| Leukemia, brain cancers, Lymphomas |
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| Incident of Overweight Children |
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Definition
- 17% of children 6-19 are overweight (BMI>95th percentile)
- Tripled in the last 20 years |
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| Likelihood Overweight Child will be an Overweight Adult |
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| Percent of Children Ages 9-13 that do NOT Participate in any Organized Physical Activity in Non-School Hours |
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| Percent of Children in the US that Receive Special Education |
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| Types of Disabilities Receiving Special Education |
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- 50% have a learning disability
- 21% have speech or language impairments.
- 12% have intellectual disability
- 9% have serious emotional disturbance |
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- Are of normal intelligence or above.
- Have difficulties in at least one academic area and usually several
- Includes ADHD |
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- Education for All Handicapped Children Act
- Requires all students with disabilities be given a free, appropriate public education
- Enacted in 1975, renamed in 1983 the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) |
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Mandates for services to all children with disabilities:
- evaluation
- eligibility determination
- appropriate education
- IEP
- least restrictive environment (LRE) |
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- Written statement that spells out a program specifically tailored for the student with a disability
- Related to the child’s learning capacity
- Specially constructed to meet the child’s individual needs |
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| A setting as similar as possible to the one in which children who do not have a disability are educated |
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| Educating children with a disability in the regular classroom |
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| Educating children with a disability partially in a special education classroom and partially in a regular classroom |
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| When and Who Identified Autism |
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- Leo Kanner identified in 1943
- Hans Asperger also identified similar children |
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| The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (2013), groups all previous pervasive developmental disorders under autism spectrum disorders |
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| DSM-V Autism Spectrum Disorders Criteria |
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Definition
- Impairments in social communication & social interaction
- Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities
- Present in early childhood
- Limit or impair everyday functioning
- Severity rating |
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Level 1 = requiring support
Level 2 = requiring substantial support
Level 3 = requiring very substantial support |
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- Genetics
- Brain structure and chemistry
- Prenatal teratogens (Maternal rubella,
Thalidomide exposure)
- Environmental toxins
- Other neurological conditions |
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- Early Intervention
- Education and behavioral training
- Medications
- ABA (Lovaas) |
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- No babbling by 12 months of age
- No use of gestures by 12 months of age
- Doesn’t say single words by 16 months
- Doesn’t say two-word phrases by 24 months
- Loses language or social skills |
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| Controversial Autism Treatments |
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- Facilitated Communication (FC)
- Auditory Integration Training
- Dietary modifications
- Secretin
- Chelation |
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| Percent of Children Who Don't Engage in Free Time Physical Activity |
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| Percent of Adolescents Who Watch More than 2 Hours of TV a Day |
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