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Early thinking skills

...perception, memory, forming ideas, language and use of symbols...underlie the ability to...solve problems.

Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, 2009

Educators of children with SLD/PMLD/CLDD can enhance problem-solving thought processes through daily classroom activities.

Early thinking skills include:

  • Using intuition.
  • Predicting and anticipating.
  • Remembering.
  • The understanding of cause and effect.
  • Linking objects, events and experiences.
  • Thinking creatively.
  • Thinking about thought processes.

(QCA, 2009; Wallace et al, 2004)