The document discusses brain development in infants. It explains that an infant's brain wiring is shaped by external experiences, and that parents can influence development by touching, talking, singing, and cuddling with the infant. It also notes that infants experience the world through their five senses, and parents can provide sensory experiences through music, colorful surroundings, aromas, and textures. Finally, it states that early relationships are important for emotional and social development, and that parents should smile, use different voice tones, and provide calm interactions and social opportunities.
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A typical day for a one year old includes getting ready in the morning with a diaper change and playtime, playing games to enhance development, eating healthy foods for proper growth at mealtimes, taking naps that last 20 minutes to 3 hours to support development, dinner in the evening, bedtime activities like reading and coloring between 7:30-8:30pm, and sleeping for about 11.5 hours at night plus two naps, for a total of around 14 hours of sleep.
This document discusses brain development in children and adolescents. It covers the main parts of the brain and their functions, how neurons develop before and after birth, and critical "windows of opportunity" for developing skills like motor control, language, and math abilities. It argues that the school system needs to adapt lessons to better engage students and incorporate new technologies, as today's students have many more stimuli competing for their attention compared to past generations. Reform should focus on using humor, games, music, movement, group work, and other interactive techniques in the classroom.
Sensory sensitive children experience the world intensely through their senses and have difficulty filtering environmental stimuli. This sensory sensitivity leads to emotional sensitivity, as they are easily overwhelmed by their strong reactions to sights, sounds, textures, and other stimuli. Raising a sensory sensitive child requires understanding that they experience the world differently, supporting their sensitivities without shaming them, and helping them build resilience through allowing struggles and the emergence of their autonomous self.
The document provides guidance for parents on connecting the FastTrack Phonics curriculum to activities at home. It discusses helping children with letter-sound correspondence through games, phonemic awareness skills like blending and segmenting sounds, blending individual sounds into words, and spelling sounds with letters. The document is divided into four parts that cover these different phonics elements and suggests specific games and techniques parents can use at home to complement what their child is learning through FastTrack Phonics.
The document discusses brain development in infants. It explains that an infant's brain wiring is shaped by external experiences, and that parents can influence development by touching, talking, singing, and cuddling with the infant. It also notes that infants experience the world through their five senses, and parents can provide sensory experiences through music, colorful surroundings, aromas, and textures. Finally, it states that early relationships are important for emotional and social development, and that parents should smile, use different voice tones, and provide calm interactions and social opportunities.
My Little Genius offers brain development programme for children, cognitive development in children, brain development in early childhood, child development school, child cognitive development, brain development in children, mental development for children, etc.
A typical day for a one year old includes getting ready in the morning with a diaper change and playtime, playing games to enhance development, eating healthy foods for proper growth at mealtimes, taking naps that last 20 minutes to 3 hours to support development, dinner in the evening, bedtime activities like reading and coloring between 7:30-8:30pm, and sleeping for about 11.5 hours at night plus two naps, for a total of around 14 hours of sleep.
This document discusses brain development in children and adolescents. It covers the main parts of the brain and their functions, how neurons develop before and after birth, and critical "windows of opportunity" for developing skills like motor control, language, and math abilities. It argues that the school system needs to adapt lessons to better engage students and incorporate new technologies, as today's students have many more stimuli competing for their attention compared to past generations. Reform should focus on using humor, games, music, movement, group work, and other interactive techniques in the classroom.
Sensory sensitive children experience the world intensely through their senses and have difficulty filtering environmental stimuli. This sensory sensitivity leads to emotional sensitivity, as they are easily overwhelmed by their strong reactions to sights, sounds, textures, and other stimuli. Raising a sensory sensitive child requires understanding that they experience the world differently, supporting their sensitivities without shaming them, and helping them build resilience through allowing struggles and the emergence of their autonomous self.
The document provides guidance for parents on connecting the FastTrack Phonics curriculum to activities at home. It discusses helping children with letter-sound correspondence through games, phonemic awareness skills like blending and segmenting sounds, blending individual sounds into words, and spelling sounds with letters. The document is divided into four parts that cover these different phonics elements and suggests specific games and techniques parents can use at home to complement what their child is learning through FastTrack Phonics.
The document summarizes brain development from conception through adulthood. It notes that brain development begins at conception and continues throughout life, and may be affected by sensory experiences. Early childhood sees rapid changes in brain size and structure as the brain prepares to learn. Neglect and abuse can impact the development of areas like the frontal lobe. During adolescence, the brain undergoes pruning and continued myelination, while the amygdala develops emotional processing before the frontal lobe. Both genetics and the environment influence how genes express themselves in the developing brain.
Thumb sucking is a behavior found in humansAsmita Sodhi
Thumb sucking is a natural behavior seen in humans and other primates that usually begins before birth and involves rhythmically sucking the thumb or other skin. While soothing for infants, prolonged thumb sucking beyond ages 5-6 can potentially cause dental problems by impacting the development of permanent teeth and jaw structure. The American Dental Association and American Academy of Pediatrics only express concern if thumb sucking persists after ages 6-8 and affects the child's dental alignment, otherwise viewing it as a common and typical behavior for young children.
This document discusses the differences between formative and summative interventions with children. Formative interventions focus on a child's development and inner instincts, addressing their unmet needs through relationships. Summative interventions focus on behavior and consequences. The document advocates for formative or attachment-based interventions, noting counseling should create context for emotional maturation. It also discusses how attachment pedagogy instructs attunement in relationships over roles, and how a child's behavior may indicate missing feelings of co-regulation, safety or being grounded.
This presentation provides a brief overview of early brain development with links made to early years practice. Questions are included to help practitioners reflect on their role in helping to positively influence early brain development.
The document defines key terms related to child development and cognitive processes in infants and toddlers. It describes Piaget's stage of sensorimotor intelligence where infants use senses and motor skills to understand the world through processes like habituation, primary and secondary circular reactions, and tertiary circular reactions involving experimentation. It also defines concepts like object permanence, naming explosion, deferred imitation and the "little scientist" stage of toddlers.
The document summarizes research on perceptual development in infancy. It discusses how infants perceive the world through their five senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing and vision. It outlines some of the key findings regarding how infants develop abilities like depth perception, object perception and linking information across senses. The document also notes debates around nature vs nurture influences on development and implications of the research.
This study aimed to measure the degree to which parents and non-parents are distracted by infant cries in an auditory attention task. Participants completed a task where they had to discriminate between high and low pitched tones while being exposed to different distractor sounds, including infant cries. The results showed that parents were significantly more distracted by infant cries than non-parents, as measured by worse performance on the task. Parents also rated infant cries as less pleasant than non-parents. Additionally, the more unpleasant participants found the cries, the worse their task performance was. The study provides evidence that parental status influences how distracting infant cries are for an auditory attention task.
This document summarizes a research study conducted in Tanzania from 2013-2015 that examined the language environment of babies in their first year. The study was conducted across five districts in Tanzania and involved over 1,000 families. The study found that mothers in Tanzania do not typically talk to their babies much in the first year. However, international research shows that talking to babies from birth is critically important for brain development and future educational success. Talking and responding to babies helps encourage communication and language development. The quality of interaction between caregiver and infant is more important than just time spent together. Good early language skills are linked to better literacy, academic performance, employment opportunities, and reduced poverty and crime rates.
Chapter 9 discusses lifespan development from a psychological perspective. It focuses on how biological, social, cognitive, and personality development change over time from infancy to late adulthood. Key issues discussed include nature vs nurture influences, continuity vs stage theories of development, and critical periods of development. Piaget's stages of cognitive development and Erikson's psychosocial stages are also summarized.
Running head: COMMUNICATION 1
COMMUNICATION 2
What Is The Relationship Between The Use of Educational Toys and The Educational Outcome For Deaf Children?
Student’s Name
University Affiliation
Abstract
Deaf children always go through challenges in memory tasks. The ability to learn for a variation of purposes is essential to the success of these deaf children, the schools and in the modern society as a whole. This research is aimed at assessing the relationship between learning among the deaf students and the use of educational toys. It seeks to evaluate the null hypotheses that there is a significant association between use of educational toys and the outcome for learning in deaf children. The study will involve ten deaf children, both males, and females. The children's ages will range from 4-6 years. Questionnaires will be used to gain the relevant information and data needed for the research. The study will also use the statistical techniques of regression analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data. The expected result is that the use of educational toys will play a significant role in the learning and educational outcome of the deaf children. Educational toys are considered to be helpful in the development of the child, language proficiency, creativity, and social development.
Keywords: Information Processing, Cognitive Development, Toys, Deaf Children
Introduction
Significant evidence from various research reveals that deaf children experience challenges in memory tasks. For instance, an article by Eime, Young, Harvey, Charity, & Payne (2013) demonstrated that deaf children are deficient on digit span test and are not able to interact with others children when playing. Children with austere to insightful hearing losses often feel isolated, without associates or friends, and doomed in school, predominantly when their socialization with other kids with the same problem is limited. These social challenges appear to be more recurrent in children with a slight or adequate hearing losses than in those with austere to insightful loss. This is because deaf children are slow learners due to their status. According to another study by Peredo, Owen, Rojas, and Caughy (2015), two factors are contributing to slow learning and communication in deaf children. First, deaf children do not exploit the playing materials and memory aid strategies such as grouping and practice with other kids. Second, despite the deaf children using the memory aid procedures, they may take quite a long time to practice and employ them proficiently. This, therefore, affects the learning and playing processes both in the short and long run.
Additionally, a survey conducted on the relationship between learning among deaf children and play t ...
This document discusses theories of language acquisition in children. It describes the behaviorist theory, which views language learning as conditioned responses to stimuli through reinforcement. It also discusses Chomsky's innateness theory, which argues that children are born with an innate language acquisition device that allows them to learn the underlying rules and structures of language. Finally, it summarizes Piaget's cognitive theory of language development, which views language learning as progressing through sensory-motor, pre-operational, and operational stages as children's cognitive abilities develop.
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Student 1 Stacia
The brain
The brain develops at an unbelievable rate from infancy into the toddler age. The brain consists of microscopic brain cells and the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is the most complex brain structure. It is responsible for our intelligence. Within the brain are neurons that store and transmit information.
Growth of infant brain.
During the prenatal period, neurons are produced in the embryo’s neural tube. They then move to form other parts of the brain. They eventually form fibers and synaptic connections with other cells. In infancy and toddlerhood, the neural fibers increase tremendously. The neurons are stimulated from input and form communication systems that support complex abilities. The stimulation results in synapses that ensure children obtain motor, cognitive, and social skills. A child’s brain needs to be appropriately stimulated during the formation of synapses.
Physical growth.
Different parts of the body grow at different rates. The cephalocaudal trend and the proximodistal trend. The cephalocaudal trend is when the head develops more quickly than the lower half of the body. At birth, the head is most of a child’s body length. The rest of the body eventually catches up. The proximodistal trend is defined as growth from the center of the body and out. In infancy and early childhood, arms and legs grow ahead of hands and feet.
Brain Plasticity.
Plasticity is a basic property of the nervous system. Synaptic connections support brain plasticity. Within the first years of life, the brain is very plastic. This means than it is able to reorganize, something that mature brain cannot do as well. Essentially, brain injury after this time is less likely to yield improvements but with it is possible with practicing relevant tasks.
Experience-expectant versus experience-dependent brain growth.
Experience-expectant brain growth is the young brains developing organization that depends on ordinary experiences and opportunities to explore the environment, interact with people, and to hear sounds. The brains of all young children “expect” to encounter experiences and grow. Experience-dependent brain growth happens throughout life and the refinement of existing brain structures from learning experiences.
Student 2 Lisa
To new parents having a new baby can bring a lot of worries about everything regarding health and development. Brain development is one of the major concerns when it comes to the baby. The brain is one of the most important parts of the body and as a baby it continues to develop. At the beginning of the infancy the neural fibers and synapses increase rapidly as they grow (Berk, Meyers, 2015-03-01). This just means that all the parts of the brain are doing everything it needs to do and growing the way it should. If this is happening in the brain then the baby will grow and develop by all the milestones.
Each ...
This document discusses several theories of how children learn language:
- Behaviourism emphasizes the role of repetition and imitation in shaping language behaviour through reinforcement.
- Innatism posits that infants have an innate ability to process linguistic data due to biological programming for language acquisition.
- Social interactionism views language acquisition as resulting from both linguistic environment and innate ability, and being dependent on quality interactions between adults and learners.
- The zone of proximal development describes the level of development that can be achieved with adult guidance or peer collaboration versus independent problem solving. Scaffolding methods like modeling and feedback can help students progress within their ZPD.
Eleanor Johnson examines children's development of listening skills and provides strategies to improve listening abilities. She discusses how listening is a complex process involving hearing, attention, and the ability to filter out distractions. Children progress through stages of attention, starting with brief periods of focus and developing the ability to pay attention to multiple stimuli simultaneously. Poor listening can impact learning, language development, play, and social skills. The document provides tips for supporting listening skills, such as using audio resources, modeling good listening, and creating focused learning environments.
This document discusses the socioemotional development of infants and toddlers. It states that parents and caregivers play a significant role in children's socioemotional development in the first three years through establishing attachments, responding consistently to the child's needs, and serving as models for emotion regulation. It also describes some key aspects of socioemotional development like attachment, temperament, and the role of parents in helping children learn to interact with others and understand their emotions.
Babies are born ready to learn from their environment. The most rapid period of brain development occurs in the first three years of life as the brain forms excessive connections that are later pruned away. This pruning allows the brain to become specialized and adapted to its surroundings. Parents play a key role in nurturing and nourishing their baby's development through talking and interacting with them. The use of "parentese" helps build babies' language skills as their brains are especially sensitive to sounds between ages 0-7.
Babies are born ready to learn from their environment. The most rapid period of brain development occurs in the first three years of life as the brain forms excessive connections that are later pruned away. This pruning allows the brain to become specialized and adapted to its surroundings. Parents play a key role in nurturing and nourishing babies' development through talking and interacting with them. The use of "parentese" helps build babies' language skills as their brains are most sensitive to the sounds of language between ages 0-7.
1. The document discusses physical, cognitive, motor, and perceptual development in early childhood. It describes growth patterns in height, weight, and body composition from ages 2-5.
2. Brain development is also covered, noting the brain reaches 95% of adult size by age 6 but continues developing internally. Areas related to attention and planning see most growth ages 3-6.
3. Sleep needs, motor skills, perceptual abilities, and Piaget's preoperational cognitive stage are also summarized, focusing on representations, pretend play, egocentrism, and emerging reasoning abilities from ages 2-7.
Children with unilateral hearing loss face challenges in language learning and behavior due to their inability to use both ears. They have a smaller "listening bubble" and more difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments or at a distance. Missing language opportunities can negatively impact vocabulary development and social skills. Parents must provide extra support by ensuring their child can hear warnings and explanations clearly and by role playing social situations.
Science of Learning — Why it matters to schools and families?CITE
This document summarizes a presentation by Professor Laura-Ann Petitto on the science of learning and its importance for schools and families. The presentation discusses how the science of learning uses multidisciplinary approaches to study how, when, and what people learn across their lifespan. It highlights key findings from educational neuroscience on early childhood learning and dispels common myths about bilingual education by presenting behavioral and brain imaging evidence. The presentation emphasizes that early and simultaneous exposure to multiple languages is best for optimal bilingual development and that bilingualism provides cognitive advantages. It calls for policies and practices to encourage multilingualism informed by the science of learning.
The document discusses language development in children with cochlear implants, noting deficits in syntax processing compared to typical children. It suggests working memory limitations may underlie these syntactic deficits, as children with cochlear implants and those with specific language impairment both show weaker working memory and problems comprehending syntactic movement. The author proposes further research is needed to directly examine the relationship between working memory and real-time syntactic processing in children with cochlear implants.
The document summarizes brain development from conception through adulthood. It notes that brain development begins at conception and continues throughout life, and may be affected by sensory experiences. Early childhood sees rapid changes in brain size and structure as the brain prepares to learn. Neglect and abuse can impact the development of areas like the frontal lobe. During adolescence, the brain undergoes pruning and continued myelination, while the amygdala develops emotional processing before the frontal lobe. Both genetics and the environment influence how genes express themselves in the developing brain.
Thumb sucking is a behavior found in humansAsmita Sodhi
Thumb sucking is a natural behavior seen in humans and other primates that usually begins before birth and involves rhythmically sucking the thumb or other skin. While soothing for infants, prolonged thumb sucking beyond ages 5-6 can potentially cause dental problems by impacting the development of permanent teeth and jaw structure. The American Dental Association and American Academy of Pediatrics only express concern if thumb sucking persists after ages 6-8 and affects the child's dental alignment, otherwise viewing it as a common and typical behavior for young children.
This document discusses the differences between formative and summative interventions with children. Formative interventions focus on a child's development and inner instincts, addressing their unmet needs through relationships. Summative interventions focus on behavior and consequences. The document advocates for formative or attachment-based interventions, noting counseling should create context for emotional maturation. It also discusses how attachment pedagogy instructs attunement in relationships over roles, and how a child's behavior may indicate missing feelings of co-regulation, safety or being grounded.
This presentation provides a brief overview of early brain development with links made to early years practice. Questions are included to help practitioners reflect on their role in helping to positively influence early brain development.
The document defines key terms related to child development and cognitive processes in infants and toddlers. It describes Piaget's stage of sensorimotor intelligence where infants use senses and motor skills to understand the world through processes like habituation, primary and secondary circular reactions, and tertiary circular reactions involving experimentation. It also defines concepts like object permanence, naming explosion, deferred imitation and the "little scientist" stage of toddlers.
The document summarizes research on perceptual development in infancy. It discusses how infants perceive the world through their five senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing and vision. It outlines some of the key findings regarding how infants develop abilities like depth perception, object perception and linking information across senses. The document also notes debates around nature vs nurture influences on development and implications of the research.
This study aimed to measure the degree to which parents and non-parents are distracted by infant cries in an auditory attention task. Participants completed a task where they had to discriminate between high and low pitched tones while being exposed to different distractor sounds, including infant cries. The results showed that parents were significantly more distracted by infant cries than non-parents, as measured by worse performance on the task. Parents also rated infant cries as less pleasant than non-parents. Additionally, the more unpleasant participants found the cries, the worse their task performance was. The study provides evidence that parental status influences how distracting infant cries are for an auditory attention task.
This document summarizes a research study conducted in Tanzania from 2013-2015 that examined the language environment of babies in their first year. The study was conducted across five districts in Tanzania and involved over 1,000 families. The study found that mothers in Tanzania do not typically talk to their babies much in the first year. However, international research shows that talking to babies from birth is critically important for brain development and future educational success. Talking and responding to babies helps encourage communication and language development. The quality of interaction between caregiver and infant is more important than just time spent together. Good early language skills are linked to better literacy, academic performance, employment opportunities, and reduced poverty and crime rates.
Chapter 9 discusses lifespan development from a psychological perspective. It focuses on how biological, social, cognitive, and personality development change over time from infancy to late adulthood. Key issues discussed include nature vs nurture influences, continuity vs stage theories of development, and critical periods of development. Piaget's stages of cognitive development and Erikson's psychosocial stages are also summarized.
Running head: COMMUNICATION 1
COMMUNICATION 2
What Is The Relationship Between The Use of Educational Toys and The Educational Outcome For Deaf Children?
Student’s Name
University Affiliation
Abstract
Deaf children always go through challenges in memory tasks. The ability to learn for a variation of purposes is essential to the success of these deaf children, the schools and in the modern society as a whole. This research is aimed at assessing the relationship between learning among the deaf students and the use of educational toys. It seeks to evaluate the null hypotheses that there is a significant association between use of educational toys and the outcome for learning in deaf children. The study will involve ten deaf children, both males, and females. The children's ages will range from 4-6 years. Questionnaires will be used to gain the relevant information and data needed for the research. The study will also use the statistical techniques of regression analysis and analysis of variance (ANOVA) to analyze the data. The expected result is that the use of educational toys will play a significant role in the learning and educational outcome of the deaf children. Educational toys are considered to be helpful in the development of the child, language proficiency, creativity, and social development.
Keywords: Information Processing, Cognitive Development, Toys, Deaf Children
Introduction
Significant evidence from various research reveals that deaf children experience challenges in memory tasks. For instance, an article by Eime, Young, Harvey, Charity, & Payne (2013) demonstrated that deaf children are deficient on digit span test and are not able to interact with others children when playing. Children with austere to insightful hearing losses often feel isolated, without associates or friends, and doomed in school, predominantly when their socialization with other kids with the same problem is limited. These social challenges appear to be more recurrent in children with a slight or adequate hearing losses than in those with austere to insightful loss. This is because deaf children are slow learners due to their status. According to another study by Peredo, Owen, Rojas, and Caughy (2015), two factors are contributing to slow learning and communication in deaf children. First, deaf children do not exploit the playing materials and memory aid strategies such as grouping and practice with other kids. Second, despite the deaf children using the memory aid procedures, they may take quite a long time to practice and employ them proficiently. This, therefore, affects the learning and playing processes both in the short and long run.
Additionally, a survey conducted on the relationship between learning among deaf children and play t ...
This document discusses theories of language acquisition in children. It describes the behaviorist theory, which views language learning as conditioned responses to stimuli through reinforcement. It also discusses Chomsky's innateness theory, which argues that children are born with an innate language acquisition device that allows them to learn the underlying rules and structures of language. Finally, it summarizes Piaget's cognitive theory of language development, which views language learning as progressing through sensory-motor, pre-operational, and operational stages as children's cognitive abilities develop.
comment on these student posts- paragraph eachStudent 1 .docxdivinapavey
comment on these student posts- paragraph each
Student 1 Stacia
The brain
The brain develops at an unbelievable rate from infancy into the toddler age. The brain consists of microscopic brain cells and the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is the most complex brain structure. It is responsible for our intelligence. Within the brain are neurons that store and transmit information.
Growth of infant brain.
During the prenatal period, neurons are produced in the embryo’s neural tube. They then move to form other parts of the brain. They eventually form fibers and synaptic connections with other cells. In infancy and toddlerhood, the neural fibers increase tremendously. The neurons are stimulated from input and form communication systems that support complex abilities. The stimulation results in synapses that ensure children obtain motor, cognitive, and social skills. A child’s brain needs to be appropriately stimulated during the formation of synapses.
Physical growth.
Different parts of the body grow at different rates. The cephalocaudal trend and the proximodistal trend. The cephalocaudal trend is when the head develops more quickly than the lower half of the body. At birth, the head is most of a child’s body length. The rest of the body eventually catches up. The proximodistal trend is defined as growth from the center of the body and out. In infancy and early childhood, arms and legs grow ahead of hands and feet.
Brain Plasticity.
Plasticity is a basic property of the nervous system. Synaptic connections support brain plasticity. Within the first years of life, the brain is very plastic. This means than it is able to reorganize, something that mature brain cannot do as well. Essentially, brain injury after this time is less likely to yield improvements but with it is possible with practicing relevant tasks.
Experience-expectant versus experience-dependent brain growth.
Experience-expectant brain growth is the young brains developing organization that depends on ordinary experiences and opportunities to explore the environment, interact with people, and to hear sounds. The brains of all young children “expect” to encounter experiences and grow. Experience-dependent brain growth happens throughout life and the refinement of existing brain structures from learning experiences.
Student 2 Lisa
To new parents having a new baby can bring a lot of worries about everything regarding health and development. Brain development is one of the major concerns when it comes to the baby. The brain is one of the most important parts of the body and as a baby it continues to develop. At the beginning of the infancy the neural fibers and synapses increase rapidly as they grow (Berk, Meyers, 2015-03-01). This just means that all the parts of the brain are doing everything it needs to do and growing the way it should. If this is happening in the brain then the baby will grow and develop by all the milestones.
Each ...
This document discusses several theories of how children learn language:
- Behaviourism emphasizes the role of repetition and imitation in shaping language behaviour through reinforcement.
- Innatism posits that infants have an innate ability to process linguistic data due to biological programming for language acquisition.
- Social interactionism views language acquisition as resulting from both linguistic environment and innate ability, and being dependent on quality interactions between adults and learners.
- The zone of proximal development describes the level of development that can be achieved with adult guidance or peer collaboration versus independent problem solving. Scaffolding methods like modeling and feedback can help students progress within their ZPD.
Eleanor Johnson examines children's development of listening skills and provides strategies to improve listening abilities. She discusses how listening is a complex process involving hearing, attention, and the ability to filter out distractions. Children progress through stages of attention, starting with brief periods of focus and developing the ability to pay attention to multiple stimuli simultaneously. Poor listening can impact learning, language development, play, and social skills. The document provides tips for supporting listening skills, such as using audio resources, modeling good listening, and creating focused learning environments.
This document discusses the socioemotional development of infants and toddlers. It states that parents and caregivers play a significant role in children's socioemotional development in the first three years through establishing attachments, responding consistently to the child's needs, and serving as models for emotion regulation. It also describes some key aspects of socioemotional development like attachment, temperament, and the role of parents in helping children learn to interact with others and understand their emotions.
Babies are born ready to learn from their environment. The most rapid period of brain development occurs in the first three years of life as the brain forms excessive connections that are later pruned away. This pruning allows the brain to become specialized and adapted to its surroundings. Parents play a key role in nurturing and nourishing their baby's development through talking and interacting with them. The use of "parentese" helps build babies' language skills as their brains are especially sensitive to sounds between ages 0-7.
Babies are born ready to learn from their environment. The most rapid period of brain development occurs in the first three years of life as the brain forms excessive connections that are later pruned away. This pruning allows the brain to become specialized and adapted to its surroundings. Parents play a key role in nurturing and nourishing babies' development through talking and interacting with them. The use of "parentese" helps build babies' language skills as their brains are most sensitive to the sounds of language between ages 0-7.
1. The document discusses physical, cognitive, motor, and perceptual development in early childhood. It describes growth patterns in height, weight, and body composition from ages 2-5.
2. Brain development is also covered, noting the brain reaches 95% of adult size by age 6 but continues developing internally. Areas related to attention and planning see most growth ages 3-6.
3. Sleep needs, motor skills, perceptual abilities, and Piaget's preoperational cognitive stage are also summarized, focusing on representations, pretend play, egocentrism, and emerging reasoning abilities from ages 2-7.
Children with unilateral hearing loss face challenges in language learning and behavior due to their inability to use both ears. They have a smaller "listening bubble" and more difficulty understanding speech in noisy environments or at a distance. Missing language opportunities can negatively impact vocabulary development and social skills. Parents must provide extra support by ensuring their child can hear warnings and explanations clearly and by role playing social situations.
Science of Learning — Why it matters to schools and families?CITE
This document summarizes a presentation by Professor Laura-Ann Petitto on the science of learning and its importance for schools and families. The presentation discusses how the science of learning uses multidisciplinary approaches to study how, when, and what people learn across their lifespan. It highlights key findings from educational neuroscience on early childhood learning and dispels common myths about bilingual education by presenting behavioral and brain imaging evidence. The presentation emphasizes that early and simultaneous exposure to multiple languages is best for optimal bilingual development and that bilingualism provides cognitive advantages. It calls for policies and practices to encourage multilingualism informed by the science of learning.
The document discusses language development in children with cochlear implants, noting deficits in syntax processing compared to typical children. It suggests working memory limitations may underlie these syntactic deficits, as children with cochlear implants and those with specific language impairment both show weaker working memory and problems comprehending syntactic movement. The author proposes further research is needed to directly examine the relationship between working memory and real-time syntactic processing in children with cochlear implants.
The document outlines next steps and hypotheses for a study investigating how tactile and touch cues influence infants' ability to learn novel words for body parts. It plans to complete testing and analysis of subjects ages 4-6 months and 9-10 months to determine if more subjects are needed. It also plans a control experiment without exposure to determine what drives longer looking to body part videos. The study aims to see if infants receiving consistent speech+touch exposure during training map words better than those receiving inconsistent exposure. It describes the subjects, design, stimuli, and procedure which exposes infants to speech streams paired with touch to target words referring to body parts, then tests their word learning using a preferential looking procedure.
The 3-year-old Ryan wants to play with someone but only a "human kid" like his 5-year-old friend Josh. Ryan sees mom, Josh, and the dog Teddy as potential playmates but understands Teddy is neither a kid nor human. This shows Ryan is developing an understanding of different categories of beings. Development results from the interaction between biological factors and environmental experiences over time. Nature and nurture work together to shape cognitive development through complex dynamic systems rather than isolated stages.
InteractiveTechnology of early Childhood: Harmful or Helpful?Sprinkie NV
This document summarizes a presentation on the potential harms and benefits of interactive technologies for early childhood. It discusses research showing infants and toddlers below age 2 learn better through live interactions than screens due to video deficits. However, repetition and parental co-viewing can help mitigate these effects. It also notes potential physical health issues for preschoolers like obesity, poor sleep, and musculoskeletal problems from overuse of technologies, but acknowledges technologies can also promote movement.
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This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
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Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
"Learn about all the ways Walmart supports nonprofit organizations.
You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
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1. Synchrony through gaze :
Mapping the neural social network of infants
Dr Victoria Leong
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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2. 2
• Synchrony creates social connectedness
(see Marsh et al, 2009 for review)
• Infants are more helpful to synchronous strangers
(Cirelli et al, 2014)
Synchrony : An affiliative mechanism
3. 3
• Parents and infants synchronise on multiple levels
– Gaze
– Behaviour
– Emotions
– Physiology (heartrate, arousal)
(Kaye & Fogel, 1980; Cohn & Tronick, 1988;
Feldman et al, 2011; Waters et al, 2014)
Do brains also synchronise? (YES)
How and for what purpose?
Parent-child synchrony
Behaviour states =
Protest, disengage, attend, play
4. Research Areas
Neuro-Social Mechanisms of Learning
Adult-Infant Neural
Synchronicity
• Eye contact
• Joint
attention
• Name use
SYNCHRONY
CUES
• Learning
• Communication
• Interpersonal
trust
SUPPORT FOR
5. 5
• From birth, infants prefer
Direct gaze (Farroni et al, 2002)
• Gaze supports infant
communication (Bloom, 1975)
• Gaze-following ability
predicts language learning
(Brooks & Meltzoff, 2008)
Gaze : An early communication signal
Vocalisations
/min
(smile/touch)
Does gaze act as a
“synchronising cue”
for interacting brains?
6. 6
Gaze and adult-infant neural synchrony
• Adult-infant dyads (9 months old)
• General Partial Directed Coherence (GPDC)
– Directed measure of (Granger)-causality
• Theta and Alpha bands only (no speech artifacts)
• Significance thresholding with surrogate shuffled data
(N=17) (N=19)
7. 7
Predictions
• E1 : Uni-directional influences A I
E2 : Bi-directional influences A I & I A
• Direct = Direct-Oblique >> Indirect gaze
• More vocalisations with Direct gaze
Direct Indirect Direct-Oblique
10. • Gaze triggers phase-resetting so that adults’
and infants’ oscillation patterns align ( sync)
• In this aligned state, information is optimally
transmitted from speaker to listener
(i.e. Adult is ready to speak when Infant is ready to listen)
10
What’s going on?
Are infants really more receptive during Direct gaze?
Indirect Direct
11. 11
Infants’ internal networks during gaze
Direct Indirect Direct-Oblique
Direct
Indirect
Direct-Oblique
Theta Alpha
THETA
13. • Infants who make a greater effort to communicate
(vocalise longer) influence the adult more
– Caveat : this only works if the adult is looking and live..
• Infants help to maintain dyadic synchronicity! 13
Infants’ vocalisations
15. 15
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
Time (s)
Amplitude
• Infants can connect to and help
maintain neural social networks
with adults
• Social signals like gaze and name-
calling are neural “synchronising
cues”
• A high-synchrony, joint-networked
state may support communication
and learning
Sync with me!
Conclusions : Synchrony through gaze
16. Dr Sam Wass (UEL)
Co-investigator
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Dr Kaili Clackson
Post-doc
Tardis tamer &
Baby charmer
Stani Georgieva
EEG specialist
Brainwave guru
Thanks to the research team…
Elizabeth Byrne
(MRC-CBU)
Experimental material
Most consistent singing
• Our kind volunteers who assisted with hours of video
coding and baby distraction
• Our brave mums and babies
• Friends and family for supporting and believing in us!
17. Thanks for support from
ESRC UK
Nanyang Technological University
Rosetrees Trust
Isaac Newton Trust
British Academy
Leverhulme Trust
Keep up with us at:
• @Baby_LINC
• @DrVLeong
• http://www.baby-linc.psychol.cam.ac.uk/
Bye bye!