CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Early Representational Thought (18-24 months) Children begin to develop symbols to represent events or objects in the world in the final sensorimotor substage. During this time, children begin to move towards understanding the world through mental operations rather than purely through actions.

Detailed explanation-2: -The fourth substage (from 8 – 12 months) is the stage of co-ordinating secondary schemes. Instead of simply prolonging interesting events, babies now show signs of an ability to use their acquired knowledge to reach a goal.

Detailed explanation-3: -The current version, the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development-Third Edition, has five components a cognitive scale, a language scale, a motor scale, a socio-emotional scale, and an adaptive scale.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is very common at this stage for your child to understand a lot more language than he can say. Estimates have suggested that, between the ages of one and two, a child can understand around five times more the number of words than they are able to say.