The social environment of foster care can interrupt developmental stages of children while preventing from obtaining optimum level of health. The institution of child welfare is being motivated by the intentions of protecting children from danger with the results of having unintentional increase in vulnerability of fragile population. It can be said that children in foster care in the absence of systemic interventions cannot be considered accountable to the children being responsible for their selections (MacDonald & Turner, 2005; Crosland & Dunlap,
Other factors that may affect a child's performance include cultural differences and language barriers, parents not having books to read to their child and a child's lack of interaction with other children. Consequently, assessment of infants, toddlers, and young children requires sensitivity to the child's background, and knowledge of testing limitations and procedures with young children. Informal relaxed settings where the child can be as much at ease as possible are recommended when doing assessment. Assessing a child within the context of his or her community and the interacting social systems, and taking into account the family's needs, resources, and concerns affect both the evaluation and possible interventions. When testing young children the examiner needs to take certain aspects into account.
Lastly I will be looking at the transactional model which helps us link the child’s behavior and its interaction with the environment, or vice versa. This part will also show how children’s temperaments may protect them against social risk. Defining a development difficulty is controversial, as clinicians have to rely on the observations of parents, teachers and other agencies, these observations do not always give an accurate representation, as seen by the work of Achenbach et al (1987) who conducted meta-analysis on the judgments of this group and found that there was a low level of reliability between them; this may be because of the different expectations of the adults. To help professionals who have to assess these children, certain organisations have carried out studies and broke down developmental difficulties into 8 parts; withdrawn, somatic complaint,
Appropriate Behaviour As a teaching assistant you must be able to adapt your behaviour as how you would behave at home would be different to at work. This also occurs with how you would act in front of adults to children, your behaviour would change to suite your audience or environment. Also another example where your behaviour may need to change is the environment such as the difference between mainstream settings to a SEN setting. A few examples of scenarios where you may have to adapt your behaviour would be: Nursery- When adapting our behaviour it is important to adapt it to the child’s needs and age. At this age we need to remember to comfort the child if they become upset and be someone they can speak to if they choose too, it is important we do not shout at children as this could cause them more upset and distress.
This stage is where a child must learn and accept what is and is not allowed and that some of the things that are not allowed could result in a punishment. When children are given the opportunity to use their initiative, for example, by making up a game, greater feelings of security are introduced with their ability to lead others and their sense of initiative is boosted. A dismissive or over controlling attitude or criticism from a carer could cause the child to become under the impression that they are a nuisance to others, making them feel embarrassed and causing them to lack self initiative. During this stage, children tend to ask many questions as they exercise interest and become more curious about their world. If negative responses towards the child’s questions are shown from the parents or carer, then the child may begin to develop feelings of guilt for showing an interest.
This essay will keep these questions in mind as it discusses if children have a right to a particular upbringing, and if so, what should their upbringing include or entail? The parenting process includes protecting, nourishing, and guiding the child; this contains a series of interaction between the parent and child. Baumrind (1971) identifies three parental responses and interactions with their children. As mentioned above, parenting styles relate to their own experiences, however parenting styles may change as a result of independent research or feedback from others. ‘The three parenting styles are permissive, authoritarian and authoritative’ (bookmark2).
The importance of early identification of barriers to learning and the provision of early inclusive intervention and appropriate learning support. 1. Introduction Parenting or educating a child with learning barriers may be a daunting task. If the child has not been identified as experiencing a barrier to learning, teachers and parents might mistakenly assume that the child is lazy, demotivated, refuses to listen ,is unwilling to concentrate and uninterested in learning. It may still present a frustrating challenge to parents and teachers who are aware that the child has a barrier to learning, but who do not know how to deal with the situation.
You must think about this when planning activities, for example when they involve physical play, or if more consideration must be given to the needs of a child who has just become mobile than to an older child, when planning room layouts. • Some children have specific needs such as sensory impairments: for example think about the challenges to a child with limited hearing understanding explanations about safety. • The different needs of families and carers must be considered. • Always be clear about why you are using the environment in question, the activities a child encounters and what sorts of services are offered. • The duty of care of a setting to children, parents and carers is a legal obligation.
If the children ask what you are doing, say something truthful but ambiguous, such as "writing.” If the children ask for your help, direct them to a teacher whenever possible. Try to keep any particular child you are observing from being overly conscious of your attention, by making regular glances to other places or children in the room. Objective vs. Subjective Records When observing children it is tempting to interpret their behavior in terms of "good" or "bad,” "pleasing" or "displeasing", etc. It is important to describe or record objectively what the child does or says without interpretation. Accurate records are more usable for later interpretation.
When discussing the development of a child from infancy to young childhood it is important to know the things that a child is exposed to ultimately can mold will become. Different cultures have their methods for rearing their children which, can be seen as ineffective to another culture; however, exposure to one method opposed to another can at times yield the same developmental results. Discussing the role families play in a child’s development can explain what their early childhood education can afford them. Also the type of parenting style used can result in some unsatisfactory characteristics in children also. The bond a parent creates with his or her child can begin for a mother from the pregnancy but the most crucial moments for families is during infancy.