Individual Training for Preschool Children

Cognitive concept learning

• Sensory perception – response to sound, touch
• Causation – predicting the consequences of events
• Object concept – object naming, usage, relationship between objects
• Spatial concept - the spatial position of "self and objects" and "objects and objects"
• Colour concepts – common or mixed colours
• Shape concepts – basic shapes and irregular shapes
• Mathematical concepts – relative concepts, arrangement concepts, number/quantity/counting concepts, addition/subtraction operations, clock concepts

Special education teachers will adapt to the attention, understanding and expressive abilities of young children. They will use games, home-based parenting training that provides advice to parents to help children improve relevant skills, consolidate learned concepts and expand new knowledge.

Social communication, attitude and use of skills

Social communication is closely intertwined with daily life, and young children not only need to understand everyday language but also need to learn appropriate response skills such as eye contact, timely expression, and using the right attitude. Special education teachers adapt to the children's needs. Depending on age, development progress and learning needs, individual/group games are used to help children understand themselves better and establish a positive self-concept and image, thereby improving social communication skills with adults/peers.

At the same time, special education teachers also incorporate concepts of ‘play, pretend play’ and "recognising emotions and expressing emotions appropriately" into the training according to the children's developmental progress. This allows children to cope with family and school life with stable emotions at their own pace, thereby adapting to the social environment.

Self-care skills learning

• Eating skills – use of different tools for eating and appropriate eating attitude
• Toilet skills – toileting procedures, expression of toileting needs
• Dressing skills – putting on and taking off jackets/clothes, button/zipper unbuttoning ability, etc.
• Household skills – folding towels, hanging coats, assisting with wiping tables, etc.

Special education teachers consult with parents and make training suggestions and set goals based on the children's age, development progress, learning needs and family environment to help children learn self-care and self-management skills from an early age, and thus build a positive self value.