Early cognitive enhancement in intellectual disability: the Pre-Instrumental Learning Program – PILP – Volume 3

Plan of the work
Presentation of the work
Introduction
PART ONE – The methodological aspects and Primary Cognitive Activities
Ch. 1 The Pre-Instrumental Learning Path
Ch. 2 The Pedagogy of Mediation
Ch. 3 Primary Cognitive Activities
PRIMARY COGNITIVE ACTIVITIES – Games and activities
1. 1 Prolonged Eye Contact
1. 2 Persistent Focus and Selective Attention
1. 3 Persistence in Other-Directed Purposeful Activity and Sustained Attention
1. 4 Persistence in a condition of Reciprocity
1. 5 Psychomotor self-control
Ch. 4 General criteria for planning a PILP intervention
Ch. 5 The Pre-Instrumental Learning Path and the development of Concepts
SECOND PART – Number, Quantity and Temporal Concepts
Ch. 6 The importance of numerical cognition
Ch. 7 The development of the concept of number
NUMBER, QUANTITY AND TIME CONCEPTS – Games and activities
2. 1 The concept of number
2. 2 Temporal concepts
THIRD PART – Categorization and Concept Formation
Ch. 8 Concept Formation
FOURTH PART – Higher order cognitive processes
Ch. 9 Cognitive Skills and Executive Functions
HIGHER ORDER COGNITIVE PROCESSES – Games and activities
3. 1 Visual-perceptual skills
3. 2 Inferential Thinking
3. 3 Visual-constructive skills
Conclusions