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Kindergarten school psychology study guides
Speech and Language Assessment Report Sample Template
I have developed a basic Speech/ Language Assessment report template that I use for all my kiddos. This template makes me feel secure walking into any IEP meeting, knowing that I accounted for every possible resource, and obtained and analyzed all information appropriate to making a clinical and legal decision. Things to consider putting in your reports: previous assessment scores, ELL info, history and background information, classroom observation, spontaneous language abilities, test scores,
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PreK - 12th
145+ Quick Review Facts for the PRAXIS School Psychology Test
Preparing for your teaching licensing or certification exam? Use this 145+ Quick Review Facts for the PRAXIS School Psychology Test to quickly review for the exam. Learn and review on the go! Use Quick Review Study Notes to help you learn or brush up on the subject quickly. You can use the review notes as a reference, to understand the subject better and improve your grades. Easy to remember facts to help you perform better.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN : A Practical Introduction
This e-book focuses on the earliest years (0-8). The book considers the most important theories of language development, language development in infants and toddlers, family literacy, stages of children’s language development, language, thought and culture. This book will be helpful to students taking early childhood, psychology and special needs course. This e-Book has been organized into several topical areas. Also, it gives citations after a topic.
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PreK - 6th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Behavioral Disorders: Characteristics of Behavioral Disorders
An individual is said to be in a satisfactory mental health and considered to be normal to the extent he feels satisfied with himself and his environment. The disequilibrium of this balance leads to some form of maladjustment and to behavior disorders. We cannot discuss much on characteristics of behavior disorders without touching sufficient amount of details regarding the symptoms associated with specific disorders, since the symptoms are essential indicators of the behavior disorder observed
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PreK - 8th, Staff
Emotional Disturbance in Children: An Analysis
Although most of us believe that early childhood is the best and stress free period of life, young children have psychological problems which could lead to depression, sleeping disorders, learning and communication disorders, thus hindering their holistic growth and development. Children’s behavioral and emotional problems have allegedly exploded in the past two decades, (1988-2008) with many more children diagnosed with mental health disorders and a surging population of youth who are medicated
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PreK - 8th, Staff
Helping Children with Emotional and Developmental Challenges
Introduction By the end of this article, you should be able to:Describe how to identify and refer children with, emotional and developmental challenges.Explain the behaviours portrayed by children with emotional and developmental challenges.Children with emotional and environmental challenges have been noted to portray various behaviours characterized by among others, aggression, bullying withdrawal, thumb sucking and hyperactivity.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Nutritional Deficiencies in Children
Nutritional Deficiency DiseasesAlthough adults also suffer from nutritional deficiency diseases, children are more vulnerable and the diseases have a more serious impact on their health. This is because they have low immunity levels, their growth rate is high and they are frequently in contact with dirt. Nutritional deficiency diseases are almost as many as there are nutrients. However, we will only discuss the most common of these diseases, since they are the ones that you are likely to encount
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PreK - 4th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Attachment and Bonding in Children
INTRODUCTIONWe all know that the initial interaction is between parents and the child. Parents usher the child into the social world through interaction. Often maternal love and care have been described as the most important influences on an infant’s future development (Bowlby, 1973). However there are children who are very close to their parents while others remain “disconnected.” In this lecture, we are going to focus on the kinds of bonds that exist between a child and the parent.
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PreK - 4th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Techniques of Motivating and Sustaining Pre-School Children’s Learning Interest
Introduction Motivation is an incentive or inducement that leads us to behave in a certain way or towards a goal. Children need to be motivated in order to learn or do better. When children for example know that their parents or teachers are happy with them when they behave in a particular manner, they feel motivated to continue doing so.
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PreK - 4th
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Music Teacher: The roles
The music teacher is a strong factor in children’s musical development. Without him/her children’s attitudes toward music could be wrong. The effective music teacher serves as the live model for the music to be learned. Performance skills are learned when children imitate their teacher
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Two-Dimensional Model Theory and William Sheldon's Theory: Hans Eysenck's T
Introduction Hans J. Eysenck (1916-1997) was a European psychologist who was the first to study personality using a method known as factor analysis. He maintained that one's personality can he understood in terms of only two basic dimensions, these are the Introversion-extroversion and stability-Instability (neurotism) dimensions. Eysenck suggested a biological basis for personality traits as he linked introversion-extroversion and stability-instability to differences in individual's normal patt
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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The Role of a Caregiver/Teacher in Children’s Play
It is necessary to plan and organize play episodes to maximize their contribution in children’s holistic development. To ensure that the organization does not negatively impact on children’s play, it is important to understand the role of the teacher or the caregiver in children’s play.
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PreK - 4th
Children’s Behavior: Managing Behavior
IntroductionIn our previous lecture, we saw that children need to learn how to live with others. They have to be trained to function within some set-limits. This means that their behaviour has to be managed. To many parents, managing children’s behaviour is equal to discipline and is synonymous with use of the cane. Many associate indiscipline in school with banning of caning. But does managing children’s behviour require caning? Can one maintain discipline without use of punishment? Well, in th
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PreK - 4th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Sibling Interaction
IntroductionWe have looked at attachment between parents and their children. Although this greatly impacts on children’s emotional development, siblings’ relationships also make a major contribution. It is important to remember that the relationship between siblings remains constant as long as they live. For a long time people assumed that the main determinants of an individual’s adult behaviour were the experiences they went through in parent-child relationship. However, it has been establishe
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PreK - 4th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Behavior Disorders: Causes of Behavior Disorders in Children
In children, many factors can be said to be responsible for behavior disorders observed in children. These factors include family and social factors that play the greatest role in shaping children’s behavioral disorders; biological factors which determine how well or how bad the child will interact with the environment. The third category of the factors influencing children behavior is the school and its environment. Apart from book work, there are foreign people the child has to adjust to and n
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PreK - 8th, Staff
Socialization of Children
Introduction What is socialization? · It is the process by which an individual is adapted to his social environment and becomes a recognized, cooperating and efficient member of a society.· It is the process by which children learn the ways of their society and make the ways part of their personality. Thus, socialization is the process of preparing a child to fit in his family, community and society by giving the child the right education (knowledge, skills and attitudes).
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PreK - 4th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Life Skills: Development of Life Skills
Children need to develop life skills at an early age since it is a life-long process. Basic, or survival life skills for young children may include: toileting, brushing teeth, dressing, feeding, washing hands, tying shoe laces, imagination, exploration, observation and following simple instructions.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Society and Early Childhood Education
Children grow, develop and learn within a social framework set up by the society. A good society facilitates the growth and development of children.
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PreK - 4th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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