Early Childhood Research Paper

My childhood story corresponded with the early childhood section that we have talked about in class. Early childhood according to book includes children between the ages of 2 to 7 years old. At the time of the event that I could recall I was six going on seven. Trying to reflect on aspects of childhood development is hard for this section of the paper, because I wrote about the aspects that apply to my story in the connection part of this assignment. In a way my reflection was combined with the connection section. However, I did notice some other aspects of early childhood development in my story. For example, I learned about cognitive developmental changes such as the Vygotsky’s theory in the social constructivist approach. According to the …show more content…
In the book it goes through all the language development stages, when I was reading that section I realized that my language development was at the stage of a 2 or 3 year old level as a 6 year old. That is very uncommon to hear about, but I was adopted and did not speak any English when I was adopted. So as a 6 year old, I had just began to use transitions of simple sentences that expressed a single proposition (pink everything) to more complex sentences (I want pink balloons, pink presents,etc…). However, after the first couple of months after being in the United States I was rapidly showing progress in my language …show more content…
However, at the same time my childhood memory could also belong in the infancy section. That is because I had to basically start the developmental process all over again for this country in order understand and be apart of this new society. Sure I could have continued my childhood development at the rate I was going, but it would have not been beneficial for my new life in the United States. Therefor, I argue that my childhood story does and does not correspond with the the right time period of development for that age