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Five to six year olds have a vocabulary of 2,500-5,000 words.

Alfred Binet

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. Sherwood Anderson

Early Childhood Education & Care

Dyslexia affects one out of every five children - ten million in America alone.

My field is in early childhood education and care, in my program I help the teacher with the children. Plan teaching activities that I have to teach, I observe the children. In the ECEC program we learn about the different age developments. We work with children from the age of six weeks to five or six years of age. The experience is really good if you want to become a teacher it helps you get ready; or even if you don’t it can help you become a better parent with a better understanding of children and their development. This program is a good program that is in high demand. I like this program a lot but when you’re in this program you have to have a lot of patience.

Alfred Binet was born in July 8, 1857 in Nice, France. He is a French psychologist who published the first modern intelligence test, the basis of today’s IQ test. He was the only child of a physician father and artist mother. His principal goal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum. He went with his mother, to Paris with him when he was 15. He attended a famous law school. He received his licenses to practice the law in 1878, and then he decided to follow in the family tradition of medicine. His interest in psychology became more important than finishing his medical studies. Binet read books written by Charles Darwin, Alexander Bain, and others he was a some what self-taught psychologist. The self educating worked for him because he was a loner and introverted. In 1883, after a few unaccompanied studies when he met Charles Fere, who introduced him to Jean Charcot, the director of the clinic called La Salpetriere. Charcot became Binet’s mentor in turn; Binet accepted a job in the clinic. During his seven years there, all of Charcot’s views were accepted by Binet. This is where he could have used the interactions with others and training in critical thinking that a University education provided. Fere and Binet discovered what they called transfer and they also recognized perceptual and emotional polarization. Fere and Binet believed that their findings were phenomena and the upmost importance. They were forced to admit that they were wrong about their concepts of transfer and polarization. Binet resigned in 1890 from La Salpetriere, he never mentioned the place or its director again. Then his interest move toward the development of his children, Madeleine and Alice, who were two years apart. This research corresponds with that done by Jean Piaget just a short time later, regarding the cognitive development of children. A job at Laboratory of Physiological Psychology at the Sorbonne, presented its self in 1891. He worked a year without pay, then took over the job as a director, which is the position that he held until his death. This job made him able to purse his studies in mental processes. During this time he served as the director and editor – in – chief of the number one French journal of psychology, L’Annce psychologique. The Free Society for the Psychological Study of the Child asked Binet to be a member in 1899. A law passed in the end of the nineteenth century which made it mandatory for children ages six to fourteen to attend school. The group that Binet joined hoped to begin studying children in a scientific manner. Many people in the society and Binet were appointed to the Commission for the Retarded. The question became “What should be the test given to children thought to possibility have learning disabilities, that might place them in a special classroom?” Binet made it his problem to establish the difference that separates the normal children from the abnormal, and to measure such differences. L’Etude expermentale de l’intelligence (Experimental Studies of Intelligence) was the book he used to describe his methods and it was published in 1903. Binet published the third version of the Binet – Simon scale right before he died in 1911, but was still unfinished.