UNIT 4222-350 Outcome 4: Be able to engage with babies and young children and be sensitive to their needs. 3) Babies and young children cannot yet moderate or communicate their exact feelings. This can cause confusion and frustration for children and also confuse adults who may be trying to understand why a child is behaving in a certain way. It seems obvious, but It’s key to remember and rationalise, that as an adult you have gained the discipline to understand and moderate your own feelings during the process of growing up. Children and especially babies are at the beginning of this process, have not yet had the chance to master it and a child’s behaviour can look erratic and illogical if you do not take the time to focus back in on this.
This negativity affecting the brain can make processing problems difficult for the child understand social relationships or harder for the child to complete academic tasks without assistance or intervention from others. Lack of medical care and attention may result
There are many factors which will impact on the lives of children and young people. Such as criminal activity, poverty and religion. If a child is exposed to criminal activity or anti-social behaviour there are numerous ways this could affect them. If the behaviour is displayed by a role model the child may perceive it to be normal or acceptable and copy the behaviour. This could lead them to being unable to form positive and stable friendships due to disruptive behaviour, being unable to achieve academic goals or, in worse scenarios, imprisoned.
Schools offer lots of support to children with learning difficulties such as one to one lessons to keep the child up to date on their education like the other children. Children with learning difficulties don’t always realise they are different to other children and can make the child feel left out. Bullying Children being bullied will lack in education because instead of studying on work they will be too scared of the bully it will play on their minds taking the concentration off work. They might also have no friends because the other children may also be scared of this bully and don’t want to get involved, this can lower the child’s self-esteem and can cause a long term impact on their lives such as turning into a bully themselves when their
Some other possible impacts of social, economic and cultural factors that will impact on the lives of children and young people can be as follows: Personal choice: A family may decide to live in a way that differs from others such as communal living or same gender parents. A travelling community child may have their schooling affected if they leave and join new schools as they travel. Housing and community: There can be a negative affect on children’s development if they have poor quality housing or cramped conditions. Families can become isolated if they live in a community where children have challenging anti-social behaviours, this can make them unwilling to let their child play in the community. Health facilities and education can be tricky to access if transport is limited.
Some of the children that will enter our classroom may come from undesirable environments. As early childhood educators it is our responsibility to find strategies that will help those with autism, ADHD, and other environmental issues, to change their challenging behaviors into one that would be more suitable for learning. Children with autism have challenging behavior because their brains deal information in a different way. These children have a hard time learning to take turns and sharing with others. Autistic children are known for self-stimulating behavior such as; flapping of their arms when upset.
Some students just are not mentally prepared for the classroom whether it be because they struggle with social or self-management skills, or because they have a tough home life, they can because a disruption for others so it is essential for the school system to come up with a way to diffuse the maladaptive behavior. Many studies are conducted to test the validity of functional behavioral assessments. One study sought out to
Sometimes the behaviour, skills and interests that children show are dependent on their ethnic, cultural or linguistic background. For example, a child who does not take part in the story of the three little pigs may not feel comfortable because they are seen as unclean. Even so, the observer may see this as the child not being interested in drama. | Disability or specific requirements | Some children may have a disability or particular needs that need to be met. These need to be taken into consideration when observing and assessing.
May be unusually sensitive to light, sound and touch and yet oblivious to pain. Young children with autism also have a hard time sharing experiences with others. When read to, for example, they're unlikely to point at pictures in the book. This early-developing social skill is crucial to later language and social development. As they mature, some children with autism become more engaged with others and show less marked disturbances in behavior.
However we should adapt activities for them to joint in. Sensory impairment - If a child has a sensory impairment e.g. hearing this can affect them when mixing in groups they may not be able to hear what some say as they may be too far away or too many talking at once. Learning difficulties - a child that has a learning difficulty such as dyslexia may find it hard and frustrating, especially if they are reading as a class this may lead to behavioural problems or even not wanting to go to school which would then affect their development. 2.2 How children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of external factors Poverty and deprivation - how and where a child grows up can have an effect on their health development they may have medical problems like asthma.