Summary
Contents
Subject index
Making sure that young children with special educational needs have the right support is a top priority for all early years settings, but spotting additional needs can be tricky. This book is the ultimate resource for busy practitioners, who want good, clear advice on what to look for and how to set up the necessary provision.
From an award-winning author team, the advice contained here will empower you, and give you the confidence to identify and plan for the needs of every child in your care.
Topics discussed in chapters are as follows:
- Observation and assessment of needs
- Physical development, and how to spot problems
- Communication, language and literacy, and how to spot difficulties
- Personal, social and emotional development, in line with the holistic child emphasis of the EYFS
The book also includes case studies of children between 0 to 5 years, sample policies and lots of reproducible material, on the CD-Rom that comes with the book
Suitable for all early years students and practitioners, this book reminds the reader that all children require additional support at some stage, and that providing it is an essential part of good practice.
Development Matters: Looking at Physical Development
Development Matters: Looking at Physical Development
The aim of this chapter is to remind practitioners of what might be developmentally appropriate for individual children's ages and stages of development.
It contains an overview of physical development using the developmental stages outlined in the EYFS. Each of the stages has a generous time overlap. It will enable practitioners to have appropriate expectations for the children in their care.
The chapter sets out:
- an overview of children's physical development
- diagrams illustrating appropriate expectations for each age range
- links to the relevant sections of the EYFS Practice Guidance document
- prompts for themed observations
and includes:
- points for practice
- a Hands-on activity
- further reading.
Overview
Babies are born with some instinctive reflexes such as sucking. However after birth all ...
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