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After reading the chapter, test your understanding. Are you able to discuss:- Why this chapter isn't called "getting ready"
- What children can do and what they need at eight different developmental stages.
- Why developmental charts alone are insufficient for determining what children need.
- Two other bases of knowledge that determine what children need at what stage.
- How developmental expectations differ from culture to culture.
- How children with special needs are children first and children with disabilities second.
- How to help a young infant develop trust.
- What to do to support mobile infants' exploration urges.
- How to expand toddlers' horizons.
- What increasing autonomy looks like in two-year-olds.
- Aiding the three-year-old in increasing competence.
- Supporting a sense of initiative in four-year-olds.
- How to expand the world of the five-year-old.
- Championing the school age child as a learner.
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