A Child Is Living in a Home with Relationship and Financial

question 48

Essay

A child is living in a home with relationship and financial struggles-a single parent who works to make ends meet and does not have much time to connect and spend time with children at home. In what ways might this situation and low SES affect language, literacy and math skills in young children?

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Definitions:

Common Features

Attributes or characteristics that are shared among a group of objects, concepts, or phenomena.

Information Processing

A psychological approach studying the mind analogously to a computer, focusing on how information is perceived, processed, and stored.

Memory

is the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and retrieving information, experiences, and skills.

Cognition

Mental activity involved in understanding, processing, and communicating information.