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May 29, 2021

How Playtime Contributes to Child Development

While playtime becomes grossly undervalued in adulthood, it’s a crucial aspect of childhood. Playtime is an essential contributor to a child’s cognitive, physical, and emotional development. In addition, play offers parents an ideal opportunity for connecting with their children.

Here are five critical ways playtime contributes to child development.

1. Encourages Creativity

Playtime allows children to access their creative minds within a free environment. Playing make-believe or taking part in artistic expression encourages them to use their imagination. This teaches them to think more creatively, which creates the starting point for more advanced learning and enhanced problem-solving skills.

2. Cognitive Growth
Many studies show that engaging in playtime is critical for a child’s brain development. Playing freely will influence how the brain’s neural circuits are wired and, as a result, positively impact their neurological development. This will also result in better communication, intelligence, and confidence.

3. Emotional Stability

Regular playtime will not only act as a mood booster for children, but it can also reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety. It also creates more emotional flexibility, adaptability, and resilience. Through playtime, children can more easily process and understand life’s challenges and difficulties.

4. Builds Social Skills

Grouped playtime is a child’s introduction to socialization among their peers. This setting allows them the opportunity to develop the necessary skills to play cooperatively within groups. This form of playtime can also encourage self-control and help them become familiar with acceptable group behavior.

5. Greater Independence

Just as group play is essential for enhancing social skills, playtime in solitude can be just as valuable. By giving your child space to play alone, they can more easily prepare for socialization and gain a greater sense of independence while fostering creativity. In addition, kids who play alone in an open setting often become familiar with social cues as they observe other children interact with each other from a distance.

May 15, 2021

Assessing Your Child’s Educational Potential Through Testing

Your child is unique, and you want the best for them in schooling and life. The educational potential in children is boundless, but how do you measure your child’s potential during their learning years to give them the best opportunities for their skills, abilities, and desires?

Psycho-Educational Tests To Determine Educational Potential

Testing the educational potential in children isn’t simply about figuring out their intellectual strengths or weaknesses through a battery of tests. There’s much more to your child than being good at math and not so good at reading. And a learning disability doesn’t mean any doors closed to the educational potential in children either.

Whether your child is intellectually gifted in all areas or needs a more specialized path to learning, psycho-educational tests give us a bigger picture about what each child needs to succeed and flourish in society.

Let’s talk about how we accomplish this through testing methods like the following:

  1. Stanford Binet-5 Intelligence Scales (SB-5) are cognitive ability tests. Measurements include working memory, quantitative reasoning (counting, logic, and problem-solving), fluid reasoning (how easily a child learns or comprehends something new), and visual-spatial processing (learning physical things or making sense of numbers and letters). 
  2. Nelson Denny Reading Test was developed to gauge vocabulary and reading comprehension from adolescence into young adulthood.
  3. Woodcock-Johnson Cognitive and Academic (WJ-III Ach and Cog) consists of “standard battery” tests and “extended battery” tests administered to children from their toddler years into young adulthood. The testing areas to determine educational potential in children include comprehension, memory, reading-writing, visual-spatial processing, listening, quantitative logic and problem solving, and learning new things.

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