This program for children aged 18 months and above, delivers six basic developmental capacities (also known as stages, milestones, or levels) that lay the foundation for the child’s learning and development.
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This will empower the children to build a strong relationship and personality to help them lead an independent and happy life in the world. This is a basic right for every individual in the world and we want to ensure that this reaches as many children as possible.
Children without special needs often master these skills relatively easily. Children with challenges often don’t. This is not necessarily because they can’t, but because their biological challenges make the mastery more difficult.
By understanding these skills and the factors that influence them, and by working directly on them, we can help children with chronic disorders to master them.
Stage 1: Emotional & Social Development
Creating interest in the world by strengthening their sensory system.
Relationship building through affect and a caring environment.
Catering to the unique biologically-based sensory system of each child
Self-regulation and interest in the world
Stage 2: Engagement & Communication
Developing intimacy and engagement in relationships
Developing two-way communication
Participate in back & forth reciprocal interaction for communication
Process of opening and closing circles of communication
Stage 3: Cognitive & Problem Solving
Continuous flow of affective interactions to leading to complex communication
Develop expressive language and communication along with motor and motor planning skills
Development of logical sequencing and reading the sequential behaviour of others
Expanding circles of communication to solve problems
Stage 4: Symbolic Play
Represents ideas and emotional themes
Develops ideas in play with clear goals and purpose
Develop to associate sensory perceptions from the body visual & auditory system to develop a plan
Using symbols and creating emotional ideas
Stage 5: Logical Thinking & Bridging Ideas
Understand emerging concepts of space and time in a personal, emotional way
Connect ideas in terms of spatial and verbal problem solving
Develops steps of sequence to organize their thinking
Bridges ideas, elaborates and can reflect on actions, motives, space, time, etc.
Stage 6: Multiple Perspectives
Move beyond simple causes for reasoning and move to multi-causal thinking
Capacity to compare and contrast two things
Learn multi-causal thinking, to invest emotion into more than one possibility.
Family dynamics of relationships among different people
