Development & Early Childhood Intervention/Assessment Flashcards
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NASP, 2005 and Early Childhood Assessment
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- early ID is essential
- need to use MDT format
- assessment should focus on family system and the home environment
- categorical ID is ineffective in most cases
- results need to be understood by parents
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Early Childhood Assessment should be
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- developmentally appropriate
- ecological
- stengths-based
- skills-based
- family centered
- based on comprehensive concerns
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Empirically-based Principles of Child Development
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- domains - physical, socioemotional, cognitive
- development occurs in a relatively orderly sequence
- development rates can vary w/in and btwn kids
- play is important for development
- challenge and practice advance kids’ devel.
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Piaget’s Development Theory
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- adaptation - assimilation, accomodation, and equilibration
- stages
- sensorimotor
- preoperational
- concrete operational
- formal operational
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Vygotsky, Bandura, Brofenbrenner
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- V - Socialcultural theory: parents, caregivers, peers, and culture play a large role in devel.
- Ban - Social Learning Theory: children learn through observing others, not just through external reinforcement
- Bro - Ecological Systems Theory: Micro, Meso, Exo, Macrosystem
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Ainsworth, Baumrind, Erikson
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- A - Attachment Theory: Secure, Avoidant, Ambivalent/Resistant, Disorganized
- B - Parenting Styles: Authoritative, Authoritarian, Indulgent, Neglectful
- E - Each stage of development if focused on a conflict
- success or failure in dealing w/ conflict affects overall devel.
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Characteristics of Preschoolers
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- Unfamiliar w/ testing
- different reactions to demand of testing
- limited attention span
- wide variability in performance
- differing motivation and interest
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Socioemotional Development
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- Raver, 2004
- emotional devel. affected by risk factor, but is also a mediator for risk factors
- Blair & Diamond, 2008
- emotion regulation linked to executive cognitive functions - memory, attention
- Shoda et al., 1990
- self-regulation related to academic competence and coping skills
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Sociall Important Behaviors
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socially acceptable learned behaviors that enable a person to interact w/ others that elicit postive responses and to avoid negative responses
- CARES
- cooperation, asseration, responsiblity, empathy, self-control
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School Readiness Definition and Areas
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- Gesell Institute, 1987
- capacity to simultaneously learn and cope with school environment
- Kagan, Moore, Bredekamp, 1995
- motor devel - gross and fine
- socioemotional
- approaches toward learning
- language use - expressive and receptive
- cognitive and general knowledge
- adaptive behavior
- preacademic skills
- ltr naming, recognition, alphabet recitation, counting, numerical recog, name writing
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Kindergarten Screening
NASP, 1991
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- use develop appropriate, valid measures
- assess functioning in several areas
- involve parents as much as possible
- results should guide intervention
- measure skills that are most predictive of future outcomes
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Professional Development w/ K Teachers
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- educate about normative and non-normative
- academic behaviors of incoming kids
- importance of early ID
- warn against possible neg. implications
- train how to admin assessments w/ fidelity
13
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Dilemmas in Testing Preschoolers
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- performance of young children is variable
- students must be labeled to get services, which can set expectations for limited performance
- behavior such as high defiance, oppostitional, distractibility, wariness of new situations, high energy levels may affect testing
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Social Behaviors Associated w/ Early School Success
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- pay attention to what someone is saying
- play w/ other kids
- follow simple rules
- work independently
- cooperate w/other kids
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Assessment of Kindergarteners
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- social skills
- academic skills
- use CBM
- reading: ltr naming, sounds, pseudo.
- math: counting, number naming, missing number, number discrim
- use CBM
- Health info - from preschool records
- if none - use BASC devel. history
- school - hearing, vision, health, and speech screenings
