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Unlock Doorways to New Learning with CHILD-FOCUS KEYS!
When children with developmental disabilities joyfully participate in everyday activities with adults, they can learn new social and communication skills

Abstract

Children with developmental disabilities gain social and communication skills through everyday experiences with adults. Staff and parents will find "child-focused keys" helpful when encouraging children with developmental disabilities to learn how to talk and play. Two vignettes demonstrate how research-based strategies are used in everyday experiences.

The following tip sheet is courtesy of the Research and Training Center on Early Childhood Development.

To read PDF files, get here.

Unlock Doorways to New Learning with CHILD-FOCUS KEYS!

When children with developmental disabilities joyfully participate in everyday activities with adults, they can learn new social and communication skills.

Use these six keys to help your child open the door to new skills for talking and playing:

Give him choices
Change activities and topics of conversation to keep his interest
Mix activities he knows how to do well with new ones
Show him how!
Reward, reward, reward!
Keep it natural

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"Unlock Doorways to New Learning with CHILD-FOCUS KEYS!. When children with developmental disabilities joyfully participate in everyday activities with adults, they can learn new social and communication skills." If It Fits. Research and Training Center on Early Childhood Development: Center for Evidence-Based Practices. ED/OSERS/OSEP. 2003. English. [PDF, 256KB].

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