The intervention strategies commonly used to teach young children with handicaps are often too developmentally advanced in cognitive displacement, social decentration, and communicative purpose or conventionality for optimal learning. Five specific principles of learning for the develop-mentally young child are presented, with descriptions of strategies that can be used to facilitate ascendance to higher levels of cognitive-social-communicative functioning.
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