Develop a summary of the child’s challenges including specifics on their cognitive or language delay or disorder. Include a specific description of what the child can and cannot do.
Cognitive and language development
Professional Role and Philosophy:
Describe your current or future role as an early childhood development professional.
Include the setting and age level that you will be working with in your specific role.
Describe the theoretical framework that most aligns with your professional philosophy of cognitive and language development in diverse learners. Refer back to Week 1 Theories of Language Development and Week 2 Theories of Cognitive and Language Development discussions for support.
Case Study:
Develop a Case Study including a summary of the child’s strengths, in all developmental areas.
Develop a summary of the child’s challenges including specifics on their cognitive or language delay or disorder. Include a specific description of what the child can and cannot do. Be sure to include specific developmental milestones in functional performance of how the student’s disability or disorder affects his/her involvement and progress in the general educational setting. Refer back to Week 3 Language Development Milestones discussion for support.
Goals:
List one short-term goal that you could develop for the child. Visit the All Developmental Milestones: Guide to Baby’s Speech and Language Development. checklist for identifying one area that you could enhance to help support the child’s language and cognitive development, then develop one short-term goal. An example of a goal might be, “A vocabulary goal for will be to identify three colors using words by .
List one long-term goal that you could develop for the child. Visit the Pathways Milestones checklist for identifying one area that you could enhance to help support the child’s language and cognitive development. An example of a goal might be, “A conversation goal for will be to have two back-and-forth dialogs with another child by.
Proposed Intervention:
Explain at least two intervention strategies you may implement to help support the child’s language and cognitive development. Include a rationale for each strategy.
