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Essay on The Stages Of Human Development In The Classroom
Interventions to promote language development in young children are increasingly being delivered within natural environments. In class-room-based programs, free play is often the setting for intervention. Recent research suggests that play context, defined by types of toys available, affects the language and interactive style of both adults and children. Teachers may be best able to implement practices to facilitate child language in play contexts that are compatible with the desired learning goals.
Communication disorders are the most prevalent disability identified in preschool children (U.S. Department of Education, 1988). Among children who are biologically or environmentally at risk, speech and language delays may be the only area of developmental delay, or they may be accompanied by other difficulties, such as motor or cognitive impairments or emotional problems. In response to the clear need for early and preventive intervention to ameliorate the potential long-term effects of communication disorders, there is a trend toward providing speech-language services to children at the very beginning stages of language development, when they are toddlers .
There is a growing recognition that interventions to promote communicative development in young children who have been identified with or who are at risk for speech-language impairments are more likely to succeed if they are incorporated into the natural environment of the child (Bricker & Cripe, 1992). For children who are enrolled in classroom-based early intervention or childcare settings, this means that language intervention should be provided as part of the ongoing program, rather than in brief one-on-one sessions with a therapist. One way to implement such an intervention is to train early childhood teachers and aides to use effective language eliciting strategies during naturally occurring interactions with toddlers.
Considerable evidence exists to support the idea that adults' interaction styles influence children's language development. Studies of the effect of parental interactions on children's language suggest that stimulating and contingent maternal social interactions promote early linguistic.....
