Social interaction does not mean child gaining competence by imitating peers/adults. It means listening to-and-understanding how each toddler/child constructs his world, discovering what affective inter/actions are meaningful to him. Thus actual joint attention is finding out what is meaningful to that child and engaging at his/her level or affect based interest, however, atypical and perseverative it might appear! This "emotional bonding" in turn permits for the deepening of social reciprocity
Social interaction does not mean child gaining competence by imitating peers/adults. It means listening to-and-understanding how each toddler/child constructs his world, discovering what affective inter/actions are meaningful to him. Thus actual joint attention is finding out what is meaningful to that child and engaging at his/her level or affect based interest, however, atypical and perseverative it might appear! This "emotional bonding" in turn permits for the deepening of social reciprocity
Neilgs 3 years ago