10 Things to know About Child Development and Pedagogy

Introduction

In this blog/article, you will learn about some important terminologies, and topics of child development and pedagogy frequently asked in CTET, B.ED, and NET exams. There are many optimization strategies to boost your teaching, which this article will outline.

Fluency

Fluency means having an easy and smooth flow and rhythm when speaking.

Social interaction

·       Social interaction is how we act and react to those around us.

·       Social interaction includes those acts people/children perform toward each other and the responses they give in return.

·       As children grow and learn, they require social interactions with others to form a sense of self and to develop their cognitive, emotional, and language skills.

·       Some common examples of social interaction are peer groups, buying food from a street vendor and family members engaged in a conversation.

Inductive logic

Inductive logic means going from a specific experience to a general principle.

Conservation

Conservation means when something changes in shape or appearance it is still the same.

Language disorder

A Language disorder is an impairment of comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, and/or other symbol system. It may involve language's form, content, and/ or function.

Speech disorder

A speech disorder is an impairment of voice, articulation or speech sounds, and/ or fluency.

Dysarthria

Dysarthria is defined as a Speech disorder caused by muscle weakness (including face, lips, tongue, and throat) controlled by the nervous system.

Apraxia

Apraxia is defined as a speech disorder when the neural path between the nervous system and the muscles responsible for speech production is obscured or lost.

Lisping

A lisping speech disorder is defined as the incapability of producing sibilant consonants (z or s) correctly.

Cluttering

Cluttering is characterized by a patient’s speech being too jerky, too rapid, or both.

Stuttering

·       Stuttering is also called stammering and childhood-onset fluency disorder.

·       Stuttering is a speech condition that disrupts the normal flow of speech.

·       Stuttering is a neuro-developmental speech disorder that commences when neural connections supporting language, speech, and emotional functions are quickly changing, and is characterized by core behavior that usually takes the form of involuntary stoppages and repetition.

Articulation disorder

·       Articulation disorder is also called functional speech disorder or articulation delay.

·       Articulation disorder is the inability to produce sounds correctly in speech.

·       An articulation disorder involves the substitution, addition, omission, or distortion of speech sounds that may negatively impact message intelligibility, for example, producing the word [sun] as [tun].

PYQs

Dysgraphia is a ..................................         CTET-2023

(a) Speech disorder characterized by stuttering and errors in articulation

(b) Locomotor disorder characterized by gross motor impairment

(c) Neurological disorder characterized by trouble in forming letters and shapes

(d) Psychological disorder characterized by lack of attention and impulsive behavior