Children's Holistic Development: Communication & Language Needs

This assignment delves into the multifaceted concept of children's holistic development, emphasizing the interconnectedness of emotional, social, physical, and spiritual growth. It highlights the importance of a holistic approach in fostering effective learning and skill development, and outlines the benefits of this approach on the child's mental, social, psychological, and emotional growth. The assignment then explores the systematic synthetic phonics approach as a key method for teaching reading, explaining its role in helping children recognize letter sounds and pronounce words correctly. Furthermore, the assignment identifies the critical communication development needs of children, stressing the importance of language, speech, and communication in educational settings. Finally, the assignment explains how various professionals and multi-agency teams collaborate to support children's speech, language, and communication development, ensuring a comprehensive approach to addressing children's needs and facilitating their progress.

Supporting children’s
holistic development

Table of Contents
1.1 Holistic development............................................................................................................1
1.2 Importance of children’s holistic development.....................................................................1
2.1 Systematic synthetic phonic approach..................................................................................1
3.1 Identifying communication development needs of children.................................................1
3.6 Explaining multi-agency terms work together to support children’s development of
speech, language and communication.........................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

1.1 Holistic development
Holistic approach can be determined as a practical approach that provides the opportunity
to get comprehensive learning system. There are different areas that enables to contribute, it
includes emotional, social, physical, and spiritual growth of a child is taken care. It enables the
child to implement what is learned and focus on mere learning as well (Carter, 2016). In other
words, it is the development of a person’s social, artistic, spiritual, emotional and intellectual
potentials.
1.2 Importance of children’s holistic development
The most important benefit of holistic development or approach is not just about mental
development but it also helps towards social, psychological and emotional growth of children. It
can be said that a holistic approach helps to motivate child about a subject to learn effectively.
The holistic methodology also develop all the skills of children in order to develop the skills and
knowledge. Holistic development helps children to grow their potential knowledge and skills
which helps to achieve their study goals and objectives which are necessary or them to
accomplish inclusive learning.
2.1 Systematic synthetic phonic approach
This is considered to be the process through which students are taught to read. More
specifically, child is provided with the support to read letters or group of letters. Child is able to
recognize sounds for each of the letters that are taught. Systematic synthetic phonic approach is a
way of teaching reading effectively (Chen, 2015). In this process, children are taught to read
letters by saying sound in order to determine their speaking errors of pronunciation. It is also
known as inductive phonic that is a method of teaching where teachers blend sounds together to
accomplish full pronunciation of words.
3.1 Identifying communication development needs of children
Communication needs are important for children in order to support language and speech
development. In educational setting, it is essential that language, speech and communication
needs are considered (Chen and Fleer, 2016).
 Listen and understand information they are given.
 Make sense of idea and concept they are learning.
 Whole range of word should be used and learn.
 Sharing ideas with question and answer process.
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 Language should be used to solve issues and also ask for help and explanation.
 An interaction of read, write and learn should be made with others.
3.6 Explaining multi-agency terms work together to support children’s development of speech,
language and communication
There are various professionals that makes interaction with each in other in order to fill
needs of children regarding speech, communication or language. Social worker, teacher, parent
can work together in order to improve life and learning of a child effectively. They come
together to make the best plan for children to improve their progress (Lapan, Bobek and
Kosciulek, 2016). Every child requires various skills and knowledge to develop that
professionals support them on daily basis to remove barriers of achievements. In addition to this,
LEA decides between schools and also provide external support services towards child
development and also help to arrange interventions of school.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Carter, D., 2016. A Nature-Based Social-Emotional Approach to Supporting Young Children's
Holistic Development in Classrooms with and without Walls: The Social-Emotional
and Environmental Education Development (SEED) Framework. International Journal
of Early Childhood Environmental Education 4(1) pp.9-24.
Chen, F. and Fleer, M., 2016. A cultural-historical reading of how play is used in families as a
tool for supporting children's emotional development in everyday life. European Early
Childhood Education Research Journal 24(2) pp.305-319.
Chen, F., 2015. Parents' perezhivanie supports children's development of emotion regulation: a
holistic view. Early child development and care 185(6) pp.851-867.
Lapan, R.T., Bobek, B.L. and Kosciulek, J., 2016. School-based approaches promoting
children’s career exploration and development. Career Exploration and Development
in Childhood: Perspectives from Theory, Practice and Research p.159.
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