Tuesday, March 15, 2016

LBSU-302 Week 2: Assignment 2

The topic I have been researching for this assignment is “Early Intervention and
Assessment” as it pertains to early childhood education and working with children with special
needs, and how to assess and progress in an effective way that benefits a child’s development and growth. I gained new knowledge about my topic from the research I conducted in that I learned exactly what early intervention is, how it started, how it works, who qualifies for it, and about public resources of early intervention programs. I also gained new knowledge through a lot of informative research that my sources provided. Such as studies and results and statistics about children who were in early intervention programs versus those who weren’t. In addition, there were a lot of graphs and charts that helped me learn visually about the early ages and stages and statistics of children with special needs.


            This assignment really helped me obtain new research skills in locating credible sources. I never really knew about Google’s advanced search. This assignment taught me how to narrow down my research to .edu,.com,.org, and .gov domains when looking for specific sources. Also, I’m not too familiar with how to use the library resources online, and how to search for e-books, so I’m glad this assignment had us use the Chapman University Leatherby Library to research on our topics. Overall, this assignment helped me improve all my research skills and also learn new ones. Using these new skills, another aspect of my topic I would like to research is what signs to looks for in a child who may need assessment, and also the process of how a child gets assessed.

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