Understand the stages of intellectual development in children.

• 1.1 - Explain how a child develops at each stage of its intellectual development.
  
• 1.2 - Explain the importance of achieving the milestones that mark each stage in the intellectual development of children.
  

Understand the stages of language development in children.

• 2.1 - Explain the stages of language development in children.
  
• 2.2 - Assess the importance of these stages to the development of language in children.
  

Understand why it is important to communicate with young children.

• 3.1 - Explain why communicating with children is important to their language and intellectual development.
  
• 3.2 - Assess different ways of communicating with children.
  
• 3.3 - Explain how children’s intellectual and language development may be impaired through a lack of sufficient and appropriate communication.
  

Understand factors which affect intellectual and language development in children.

• 4.1 - Explain factors which may affect language and intellectual development in children.
  
• 4.2 - Assess the potential impact of a range of factors on a child’s language and intellectual development.