Paediatric Skill for Occupational Therapy Assistant

Running head: PAEDIATRIC SKILL FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
PAEDIATRIC SKILL FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
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PAEDIATRIC SKILL FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT
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According to Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, the children passes through
four different development stages of mental improvement. His theory suggests the ability to
understand how children acquires knowledge and what their nature of intelligence is. His theory
focuses on understanding the cognitive state of the children through four different stages. Piaget
believed the ability of children to gather knowledge and learn new things is through their active
role in the learning process as they perform experiments, make observations and learn new
things every day. The four stages as defined by Piaget are sensorimotor stage from birth to 2
years. Children under 7 years of age have Preoperational stage and the children from 7 years to
11 years have operational stage and the children above formal operational stage 12 years has
formal operational stage (Demetriou, Shayer & Efklides, 2016).
It is observed from the video that the children are in the sensorimotor stage. Piaget’s
theory suggests that the infants aging between 0 to 2 years are likely to know the world through
their sensations and movements. Children learn new things through their basic movements and
actions like grasping, listening, sucking and listening. They continuously learn things even
though they cannot be seen. Children in this age gap, realizes that their actions can cause change
in world around them (Demetriou, Shayer & Efklides, 2016).
It seems that the children are enjoying while playing. The older child, Kaylee, who is
approximately 2 years old, is playing with and the younger child, Colin, who is approximately 8
months old. Kaylee, when instructed to drink from the cup, she demonstrated her skills and her
ability to understand by pretending taking tea, adds sugar to her and stirs it and then drinks it and
declares “yummy in my tummy”. This shows that she has developed her cognitive thinking and