If you’re a parent or educator who is looking to improve your abilities so you can help children under your care, it’s not just the skills that are important. Knowing how children develop is important, and essential, to knowing how best to help them.

If you are considering a career switch to doing something more meaningful with your career, or currently dealing with exceptional children, or have a calling to work with them, you will need to be specially trained!  You will need to understand the different types of exceptional children and all their  intellectual, emotional and physical disabilities. 

Children are playful and energetic, or calm and quiet. There’s no real single way for a children to behave like children, except to say they are unique. However, there are developmental norms that we can look to when taking about children.

If you are just hearing about it or heard about it from someone else and want to know more, CAE’s WSQ Early Intervention Principles and Practices may help you understand more about what it is and why it can be beneficial for children.

Speech and language development may give the impression they are the same thing. While they are related, they are also quite different.

The development of a child’s speech and language development tend to follow a known pattern. It’s not always a cause for concern if a child’s development is a little slower than typical as children do develop at different paces. There are things you can watch out for.

Inclusive education allows age appropriate exceptional students to attend regular schools with their peers instead of special education schools. It has been around for decades and implemented across many different countries to some success. There are several benefits to an inclusive education for the exceptional child.

A child that appears to be ‘in their own world’ is a child that may be struggling to maintain conversations, not answering question posed to them and they might also be talking to themselves. This is one of the common signs that the child has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

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