Too Scared To Learn: Teaching Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma

Since being injured in his family's automobile accident, Shawn spends most days staring out the window, unable to complete his work or pay attention. Not surprisingly, traumatic experiences can negatively impact these skills by undermining language learning and vocabulary development and by com...

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Published in:YC young children 2014-11, Vol.69 (5), p.88
Main Author: Wright, Travis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Behavior
Children & youth
Chronic illnesses
Families & family life
Fear & phobias
Learning
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Primary Education
Stress response
Teaching
Trauma
Violence
Young Children
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Summary:Since being injured in his family's automobile accident, Shawn spends most days staring out the window, unable to complete his work or pay attention. Not surprisingly, traumatic experiences can negatively impact these skills by undermining language learning and vocabulary development and by compromising the ability to complete learning tasks, making it difficult to organize and remember new information. Because traumatic circumstances are often unpredictable, traumatized children sometimes have difficulty understanding cause-and-effect relationships, recognizing sequences, and making predictions (Masten & Obradovic 2008).
ISSN:1538-6619
1941-2002