Understand about cognitive development in children
Watch this YouTube video which shows a collection of clips of children at different stages of development and which demonstrates Piaget’s Stages of Development.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text: ‘Cognitive development'
- ‘Stages of intellectual development in children and teenagers’ webpage on the Child Development Institute website
- 'Brain development in children’ on the Australian Starting Blocks website
- ‘Sensory and motor development, ages 1 to 12 months' from My Health Alberta
- ‘‘We see what’s happening in their brain’: inside the Toddler Lab’ webpage on The Guardian website
- ‘Cognitive development milestones’ on the Very Well Mind website
- ‘Early brain development in children’ from Parenting for brain
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Our senses'.
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Introduction to neuroscience'.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click on the icon to the left to an article from the Baby Centre website which looks at what a baby can learn in the womb.
- Click on the link to read ‘Key competencies in early cognitive development: Things, people, numbers and words’ from the Early Intervention Foundation.
- Click to read 'Recent research on the brain and early childhood development' on the Better Brains for Babies website.
- It has been found that the first six years of one’s life is significant for the brain to develop fully. Click on the icon to the left to read 'Children brain development 0-6 years' on the Adam Mila website.
- The first twelve months of a baby’s life are full of sensory advancements. Sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste all develop faster during the first 12 months of life than during any time thereafter. Click to read more.
- This page is titled ‘The parent’s guide to intellectual development in early childhood’ and was written for the Empowered Parents website
- This article from Save the Children is called ‘Lighting up young brains: How parents, carers and nurseries support children’s brain development in the first five years’.
- Think And Challenge
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