What is Cognitive and language development? What are the different ways in which this affects the children?
Thank you for your interest in the Miller Method. Most of the children we serve have problems being with people and with the ability to use language the way typical children do. Many — but not all — have trouble solving problems such as learning to use a chair to get something they want on a shelf out of reach. The term cognitive development refers to where a child is in his or her capacity to solve such problems and others more complicated. The work we do at the Language and Cognitive Development Center of Boston is designed to help children both learn to solve these and more complicated everyday problems and to learn to use language to understand others and to communicate what their needs are to them….At the earliest level, a child might simply pull someone by the hand to get what they want. With language and cognitive development they can communicate their wishes through manual signs and spoken words without hand-pulling.
