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Cause and effect means something happens because something else happened first.
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Foundational Cognitive Concept: Cause and Effect
Understanding that actions, events, choices, and conditions produce outcomes. Cause and effect helps students recognize relationships between events, predict outcomes, solve problems, make decisions, and understand how the world works. Applicable Learners • Blind • Low Vision • CVI • Multiple Disabilities • Autism • ADHD • AAC Users • Deafblind • Developmental Delays • Early Childhood • Elementary Students • Secondary Students • Transition-Age Students Related Concepts • Sequencing •...
Also known as: Cause and Effect
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Children who are sighted naturally observe thousands of examples of cause and effect every day. They watch someone flip a light switch and the room becomes bright, see rain make the ground wet, notice a friend smile after receiving help, or observe a ball rolling after being pushed. These visual experiences help children understand how actions and events ar...
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Understanding cause and effect supports language, literacy, mathematics, problem solving, categorization, prediction, communication, daily living, and later abstract learning.
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