child development timetable

The Module Starts

September

Resit Period

August

Octobe

Speech students submit

May

Speech students continue child study write up

April

ED2011 students submit child study

March

Child Study Analysis/Write Up

February

Child Study Data Collection

January

Lectures and time to start your child study

December

Lectures and workshops

November

Lectures

October

SPE8154/1057 & EDU2011 Module calendar 2023/2024

All cohorts will attend the first lecture on Thursday 26th September 3-5pm Click on the date to view the agenda for that day

01

September

All cohorts will attend lectures on a Thursday 3-5pm Click the date to view the agenda for the lecture

02

October

All cohorts will attend lectures on a Thursday 3-5pm Click the date to view the agenda for the lecture All cohorts will also have two Mimo pacticals this month - see individual timetables

03

November

All cohorts will attend lectures on a Thursday 3-5pm Click the date to view the agenda for the lecture Speech students should start collecting data for their child study If speech students have not identified a child to observe, contact sarah.barnett@ncl.ac.uk

03

December

Speech students should be collecting collect data and start language analysis. EDU2011 students should start their write up and analysis so they can take any questions to MiMo practicals in February

04

January

All students should have started their language analysis and take any questions to the MiMo practical drop in sessions this month. See invidual timetables for sessions

05

February

EDU2011 submit their assignments Speech students should continue with their write up

06

March

Speech students should continue with their write up

07

April

Speech students should submit their child study

08

May

Students who fail the child study will resubmit a reworked version acting on their feedback in the August resit period

09

August

1b Aspects of Development

• Norms & milestones
• Summary of developmental progression
• The New Born
• The two-year old child

Week 1

Introduction to the module 1a Defining Child Development

• Definition of development
• Study of Child development
• Aspects of Development

4b Social Skills: Communication and peer relationships • Early communicative development • Social and communicative development in later childhood

Week 4

Social development4a Social Skills: behaviour and Temperament• The development of temperament • Attachment

7b Early social context 1. Innate features which support language acquisition 2. Eye gaze, joint attention

Week 7

Child Speech and Language Acquisition 7a Language acquisition 1. Early stages 2. Basic components

2b Cognition: Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory 2c Cognition: Information processing theory

Week 2

Cognitive development2a Themes & Theories of development• Themes in developmental psychology • Theories of development • Nature vs. Nurture

Language Acquisition: Complex Sentences 10a Complex sentences • Coordination/subordination • Sequence of development 10b Social interaction • Referential communication • Identification of communication skills • Use of language in social contexts

Week 10

3c 3d Play • Purpose of play • Forms of play

Week 3

Perception and Play3a 3b Perception• Perception in young children • Perception in older children

Lecture 11b Multilingualism • Multilingualism • Advantages • Code switching • Advocacy for multilingualism

Week 11

Language development Age 5+ Lecture 11a Communication 5+ • Changes in communication • Literacy • Complex communication

8b Word meanings 1. Word learning mechanisms 2. Refining word meanings over time

Week 8

Language Acquisition: Words8a Speech sound development1. Sounds in words

Week 5

5 Social skills: Cognition• Theory of Mind (ToM) • Other theories of social cognition

9c Comprehension, questions and negatives • Early sentence comprehension strategies • Structures of questions and negatives • Sequence development of negatives and questions

Week 9

Language Acquisition: Sentences9a Combining words • Intonation contours • Productivity • Pivot and open sentences 9b Morphemes and sentence structure • Developing clause and phrase structure; • Questions, negatives, passive

Week 6

How to do a child Study See detailed Assessment Handbook on Canvas

Week 6

How to do a child Study See detailed Assessment Handbook on Canvas

International exchange students due date for assignment 12 noon