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Running head: LIFE TRANSITIONSLIFE TRANSITIONSName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:

1LIFE TRANSITIONSJean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development states a fact that every individual movesthrough a procedure of distinct four different stages of cognitive as well as mental development.It mainly depends upon the understanding about how different individuals gain knowledge andfocuses upon the concept about how natural intelligence is asquired by children (Demetriou etal., 2016). He also was of the opinion that they take a very important part in process of learningby the process of making observations and also learning about the world. With their throughinteraction with r world, they continuously develop new knowledge, enhance their existingknowledge and also link with the previously held ideas for accommodation of new information.Out of the four stages, the main stage that needs to be discussed in relation with the case study isthe sensorimotor stage that usually prevail form birth to two years old. Some of the importantcharacteristics of this stage are that the toddler develops knowledge about the world through theirmovements and sensations (Saxe, 2015). Their basic actions to know the world mainly includesucking, looking, grasping as well as listening. They believe that things alwyas exist even whenthey are unable to visualize them. They consider them to be separate beings form the people whosurrounds them and the objects around them. The changes that occur during this time involve a dramatic phase of learning and growth wherechildren undertake interaction with the environment which helps them to gain new discoverieslearning with working systems of the world. Children develop physical actions like crawling,walking and different aspects of their language form the surrounding people (Bjourklund &Causey, 2017). This language development then continues to even the preoperational stage hatextends from 2 to 7 years. At this stage, they start to learn and dvelop the capability to thinksymbolically. They also learn to connect words as well as pictures for representation of theobjects.

2LIFE TRANSITIONSA number of important factors can be identified which had impacted the development of speechand language for the infant if the case study. His mother has stated that he only speaks one ortwo times and most of the time he is blabbering which means he is trying his best tocommunicate with the surrounding people. The main cause of his ill development of speech isthe lack of spending of proper time with adults which in this case is his mother as well as otherfamily members (Barrouillet, 2015). As his mother is mostly at work, jack is having difficulty incognitive development as well. Researchers state that toddler infer the communicative intent ofthe speaker. They then thereby use that information to guide the language learning. They inferfrom the adult’s excited tone of voice of the adult. Moreover another reason also stated byresearchers is that they have seen that verbal environment influences language learning andtherefore children form one age to age three from highly verbal professional families hear threetimes more words than low verbal families which increases the child’s chances of proper speechdevelopment. As Jack’s mother used to stay away for work over a large period of time, he hadvery few chances of active interaction with an adult and therefore he got very few scope ofdeveloping the cognitive skill of language development. Many literatures also suggest thatfrequency affects rate of learning. Children who come to hear unusually high proportion ofexamples of language form learn the form faster than children who receive ordinary input(Sieglar, 2016). As he spends a good amount of time with budding children, he tends to pick uptheir words which might not be as appropriate as that of adults. As jack spends a lot of time withsmall children of his age, he may develop this blabbering habit rather than clear words. His scopeto learn new things from the environment is very high and therefore his mother should make surethat his environment is modified in a way which provided him the best scopes to learn speechand language. All these would be stated to the mother of Jack after fixing up of a meeting with

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