Understanding Children with Additional Needs in Early Years Settings

This assignment focuses on understanding children with additional needs within early years settings, covering key concepts like early intervention, and the factors influencing support needs. The document defines 'additional needs', 'biological factors', 'environmental factors', and 'developmental factors'. It explains the process of early intervention, outlines how to access additional support within early years settings, and identifies key people involved in planning activities to meet these needs. The assignment also emphasizes the importance of early intervention services, including physical therapy, psychological services, and nutritional services, for infants with disabilities. The content provides insights into how to enhance children's cognitive skills through activities like drawing and playing with building blocks and highlights the roles of school staff, parents, and healthcare professionals in planning support activities. The assignment aims to meet the criteria of understanding additional needs and explaining factors influencing support needs, including biological, environmental, and developmental factors, as well as defining early intervention and prevention.

Children with additional needs

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
MAIN BODY
Q1- Explain the process of early intervention.
Ans. Early intervention services are special kind of services, provided to toddlers and infants
with disabilities. It is designed with aim to identify and fulfil special needs of the infants with
disabilities (Bajwa and et. al., 2019). This assist infants in basic learning and develop skills
during their early three years. Early intervention services comprises physical therapy,
physiological services, nutritional services, nursing services and audiology services. Early
intervention is very crucial for the growth and development of the children who born with
disabilities. It also develops and improves quality of infant's family relationship. It is also very
crucial for the improvement of mental health (Hoi and Mu, 2021).
Q1- Explain how to access additional support within early years settings.
Ans. Additional learning supports are provided to the children who are struggling with learning
at their early age. It assists them to develop their skills and make curious about the thing
happening around them. Additional educational supports are provided with aim of identification
and assessment of specific educational needs meeting with requirements (Lunt and Evans,
2018). To access additional support to the children at their early stage they need to be involved in
drawing, painting and playing with building blocks in order to enhance their cognitive skills.
Q1- Identify key people that could be involved in planning activities to meet additional
support needs.
Ans. School staffs, parents and health care profession are the people who are involved in
planning activities to meet additional support needs (Luthar and Mendes, 2020).
CONCLUSION
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Hoi, V.N. and Mu, G.M., 2021. Perceived teacher support and students’ acceptance of mobile‐
assisted language learning: Evidence from Vietnamese higher education context. British
Journal of Educational Technology, 52(2), pp.879-898.
Lunt, I. and Evans, J., 2018. Dilemmas in special educational needs: some effects of local
management of schools. In Special Educational Needs Policy in the 1990s (pp. 29-50).
Routledge.
Luthar, S.S. and Mendes, S.H., 2020. Trauma-informed schools: Supporting educators as they
support the children. International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 8(2),
pp.147-157.
Norwich, B., 2018. Has ‘special educational needs’ outlived its usefulness?. In Special education
in Britain after Warnock (pp. 43-58). Routledge.
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