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Early Childhood Care and Education : Meaning and Significance

Socio-emotional Development
Social development is aprocess of acquiring social norms and cultural values.
Notes
Healthy social development enables children to form positive relations with
family, friends and other people in life. Emotional development refers to the
development of emotions and feelings in children. Children are born with basic
emotions such as love, fear, anger and happiness etc. They develop complex
emotions and their ability to recognize, express, and manage feelings over
time.
Cognitive Development

It refers to development of mental or cognitive abilities such ability to think,
remember, recognize, categorize, imagine, reason and take decisions.
Language Development

It is a process of acquiring, understanding and using language.It involves the
skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. These skills help children to
communicate with others and to express their feelings.

INTEXT QUESTIONS 1.2

1. Fill in the blanks:
(a) ECCE is helpful in ____________development of children.

(b) Language Development refers to acquiring……………. and …………

(c) Physical-motor development involves the process of development of
…., …. muscles and .....….coordination.
(d) ……….are the examples of development of fine motor skills.

1.4 EARLY INTERVENTION

Before we discuss the meaning and significance of early intervention, it is important
to know the meaning of developmental milestones and developmental delays.
Developmental milestones are the age-specific acquisition of skills and
competencies in each domain. Children under normal circumstances are expected
to achieve the milestones in their respective domain i.e. it is expected that certain
competencies would appear at particular age ranges. If children lag behind the
normal pattern of growth, they may have developmental delay. That means that
children do not achieve the developmental milestones at the expected times.
They fail to progress at the same pace and reach the milestones as expected of
them at that particular age. There can be various reasons for developmental delays
in children such as heredity, complications during pregnancy or child birth,
illnesses, and accidents after birth.

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