Childhood is the most beautiful stage of life ,where an innocent childhood immediately comes to mind .It’s the stage of play,fun and joy.
At this stage, children don’t bear any responsibility or burden,they just play and have fun. In addition children ,at this stage, are characterised with spontaneity and don’t think or flatter any one.
_The Childhood is a Stage which starts from the birth until maturity .At this stage ,the child learn to speak and walk in addition to other things. At the end of this stage, the child will reach to maturity. Maturity various from one person to another , there are some children who reach maturity at twelve ,but others reach maturity at thirteen .These are considered individual differences between people .Also, at maturity stage, a person will be ready to face life and community and she/he has already grown up physically, it ‘s also known as adolescence stage.
*** At adolescence stage, the person will have learned and acquired numerous skills and qualities from the childhood stage and she/he will have trained how to deal with surrounding individuals and classmates at school. Also, most of these characteristics and skills she/he has gained during the childhood stage. So that, Childhood stage is considered very important stage ,because the person learn and acquire many skills that she/he will deal with all her/his life.
This course is designed for teachers and special education specialists in order to identify their causes and manifestations, develop remedial programs and prepare a report on the child’s mental state (intelligence tests) and by comparing his mental abilities and academic achievement between reality and expected. In addition to the following:
1-Write a report on the child’s reading and writing skills using survey and standardized tests.
2-Writing a report on the child’s learning process, how he learned and what he learned, including the strengths and weaknesses, his reception of information, or his linking, and does he have difficulty in reasoning, remembering, imagining, paying attention, or what? Using the metered standards for this.
3-Identifying the causes of learning difficulties and knowing his and his family’s attitude towards them, and studying the physiological, emotional, environmental and psychological factors, through intended and unintended observation, case study and standardized measures for that purpose.
Main themes:
1- Measuring learning difficulties
2- Diagnosing learning difficulties
3- Tests used in diagnosing learning difficulties
Sub-Themes: