Many mothers feel that their babies are cognitively backward and not smart enough, and even worry that there will be problems with intelligence. As teachers in language correction institutions, we often deal with children with various developmental delays, and the 2-year-old stage is the period of children's consciousness awakening, and they officially enter the stage of self-awareness, and we should focus on observing their cognitive development, as well as the intellectual age of performance at this stage.
If you look back at their performance in infancy and early childhood, you will see that there are four main ways in which they learn about the world: touching, manipulating, and listening. As they enter the age of 2 years, the way they learn about the world begins to become richer, and the means and processes of learning become more thoughtful. What is the cognitive difference between a child with developmental delay and a normal child?
In the experience of teachers in speech correction institutions, it is important to observe the following aspects.
1. Learn to conceptually understand and memorize things.
When the baby's language development progresses, it begins to form mental images of things, behaviors and concepts. They learn to verify and solve problems through trial and error in their minds, and even their memories begin to become concrete and vivid. In terms of cognition, they begin to understand the simple concept of time, and generalize it in actual operations, for example, when the mother tells him "you can play with toys after eating", the baby will put this complex instruction into practice, and in the next period of time, they will really arrange the order of everything very well.
However, children with developmental delay are different, they do not understand the concept of things, the clues of things are not clear, and simple mechanical memory is not enough to help them understand cause and effect.
2. Learn to reason about internal laws and understand complex relationships.
At the age of 2, babies are already learning to understand the relationships between objects. For example, when you ask him to play a jigsaw puzzle, he can easily match similar shapes. When learning to calculate, you will be able to understand the correspondence between numbers and physical objects well, and you will not encounter difficulties in transitioning from 1 to 1.
However, children with developmental delay are unable to reason about internal laws and understand more complex logical relationships, while children with delayed children who receive intervention in language correction institutions are much worse, and their ability to match numbers and calculate is insufficient, which is also one of the manifestations of cognitive ability.
3. The gameplay of the game is richer.
Children with good cognitive development are "players" who can learn seemingly incredible skills through play without you having to teach them. And let their brains be filled with all kinds of whimsy, and their games become more and more complex. Most notably, they began to string together different activities to create new ways to play themselves. For example, some babies may put the doll on the bed and cover it up, or pretend to feed it with a small spoon.
Children with developmental delay will not play so vividly, so close to life, their preference for toys is still stuck in the shape and color, will not put more toys together to play, in the illusion and substitution of imagination is not rich enough. These are all manifestations of a cognitive gap.
As a teacher in a language therapy facility, we would like to remind you that the factor that has the greatest impact on cognitive ability at this age is language delay. When a child's language lags, all cognitive development will become empty talk, without the help of understanding language symbols, without the expression and communication of language communication, children will not be able to understand the world around them.
It is precisely because of different levels of language development that children's cognition will continue to accumulate from the bottom and form their own brain's worldview, otherwise, what they see, touch, and hear is meaningless, and ultimately they cannot give birth to their own "cognitive awakening".
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