The field of child development is an interdisciplinary field of science that evaluates the development of all children from prenatal to the end of adolescence without any discrimination and develops, implements and monitors supportive programs to reach the highest level of their potential. Child development is a professional group that aims to provide services to the family, professionals and society while conducting science-based studies in the field of children with a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach.
As Üsküdar University Child Development Department, we aim to train child developers who have important responsibilities in the development of children in our society and to prepare them for the profession as equipped in theoretical and practical fields. For this purpose, our Child Development laboratory is organized as "Child Development Research and Application Units".
Purpose of Child Development Research and Application Units:
Developmental assessment, interviewing with the family, monitoring the child's development, creating and implementing parent support programs, conducting child-oriented family interviews, interviewing children with special needs and their families, evaluating the child with special needs, determining educational and developmental needs for the child and family and creating programs, attachment-based parent support programs, developing games and game materials, developmental game applications suitable for developmental periods are carried out.
The applications made in the units allow students to make observations within the scope of the department curriculum and to make applications with one-to-one studies under the supervision and supervision of the lecturers of the relevant course. Thus, it is aimed for our students to gain experience in working with children and families before graduation.
In the Child Development Research and Application Units, it is also possible to carry out scientific researches and applications within the scope of undergraduate and graduate graduation theses, student projects.
