Child Development
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A Parent’s Guide to an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
An IFSP is a document that organizes a plan for young kids who need early intervention services. It is customized for each kid, as ... -
Teaching Kids How to Pronounce R-Controlled Vowels
These are vowels that are trailed by an r that “controls” them. The five most common r-controlled vowel combinations are ar, er, ir, or, ... -
A Guide to Developmental Reading Programs
After years of education, the ability to easily read, digest, and comprehend content may still be a struggle for some learners. Suppose learners identify ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Developmentally appropriate practices is the process of making a curriculum based on what learners can do cognitively, physically, and emotionally at a certain age. ... -
A Parent’s Guide to Developmental Milestones
A developmental milestone is a capacity that most kids achieve by a typical age. For instance, some kids may start walking as early as ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Cooperative Play
Cooperative play is defined as being an organized form of activity that involves the equal distribution of efforts and responsibilities among the kids to ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Associative Play
Associative play is the act of engaging in recreational activities in comparable ways to parallel play but with increased interaction between the participants, including ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Parallel Play
Parallel play is one of many essential stages of play that introduce kids to social interaction. With parallel play, kids aren’t really playing with ... -
The Edvocate’s Guide to Solitary Play
Solitary play is one of the initial play stages. Playing independently is a natural step in the development of a kid’s play behavior for ... -
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development: The Formal Operational Stage
In his theory of cognitive development, Jean Piaget stated that there are four stages that each individual goes through. The fourth and last stage ...
