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This essay discusses cognitive, sensory and language development connected with the theories of Piaget, Chomsky and Vygotsky. Children develop in different areas, cognitive development, sensory development and language development. All areas are different but interlinked. The interrelation of all three provides for all round healthy development. The best practice when working within the early years is striving to develop each area. Piaget was probably one of most influential cognitive theorists. Piaget was a constructivist which means basically that learning occurs from actions rather than as a result of actions. Cognition generally refers to any intellectual process within the human experience. Another explanation of cognitive development is ; ' the process by which individuals acquire a more sophisticated and complex knowledge of the world around them' (Walker, 2002) These processes include attention the ability to focus, perception the individual interpretation, memory, thinking and problem solving. Constructivists or Cognitivists believe development is the 'process...

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