STUDY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ICDS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
Background: The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme seeks to provide children under the age of six with food supplements, immunizations, health checks, and early childhood education. There is growing evidence linking early-life adversity, malnutrition, and lack of stimulation to cognitive and economic disadvantages in adulthood. In addition, interventions in the areas of nutrition, education, and healthcare during early childhood have been linked to the acquisition of human capital in developing nations. Purpose/Aim: The aim of this research is to examine the growth of ICDS children's cognitive skills, such as language, memory, attention, problem solving, & perceptual abilities like hearing discrimination, smelling discrimination, and tasting discrimination. Methodology/Design: The Cognitive Development Scale was used for the data gathering. Purposeful sampling was used to pick 120 ICDS children. Results: The study showed that children's cognitive abilities increase with age and that there is a considerable ICDS child. Children's cognitive skills between the ages of 3-6 have improved with time, and they were already relatively mature by age 3-3 ½. The ICDS's informal pre-school education programme has been instrumental in raising childs' IQs.
ICDS, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood