INTELLECTUAL/ COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF TODDLERS

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INTELLECTUAL/COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF TODDLERS
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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

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Methods of Learning

• Incidental Learning
• Unplanned learning
• Trial and Error Learning
• Tries several solutions before finding what works

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Methods of learning (cont.)

• Imitation learning
• Learning by watching and copying others
• Direct learning
• Learn from being taught, either formally or
  informally (school)

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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

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Providing Opportunities for sensory stimulation
will enhance learning

• Taste
• Sweet and sour
• Salty and sweet
• Hear
• Name that sound
• Animal sounds
• Sound makers

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Providing Opportunities for sensory stimulation
will enhance learning

• Smell
• Distinguish odors
• Whats cooking
• Scratch and Sniff
• Problem Solving
• Opening lids
• Drop-in toys
• Puzzles
• Stacking and nesting toys
• Hide and Seek

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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

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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

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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

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NEED TO KNOW (cont.)

• Most appropriate technique to use in helping a
  child with a speech problem????
• Speak correctly while talking to them