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The First Two Years: Body & Mind

Briana Rodriguez

Veronica Nguyen

Ashley Leo

Sensory Development in Babies

Smelling

Hearing

  • the fetus hears during the last trimester of pregnancy
  • rhythmic sounds are soothing to newborns, like their mother's heartbeat
  • smell directly correlates to memories, for example certain smells can bring happy or sad memories
  • babies can recognize scents of their loved ones and can prefer to be around them

Touch

Play Time!

THE FIVE SENSES

Tasting

  • babies loved to be touched! They need to be cradled, massaged and rubbed for comfort
  • touch is important to keep the baby warm
  • babies prefer sweet over sour tastes (i.e. breast milk)

Seeing

  • newborns are extremely sensitive to bright light and are deemed legally blind
  • newborns tend to look cross eyed because they do not have binocular vision (the coordination of both eyes to see one image)

Real Life Experience: a smell triggering a memory

Discuss with a partner some ways we can help develop a babies senses through sight, smell, taste, touch or sound.

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Why is Sensory Play Important?

  • Research shows that sensory play builds nerve connections in the brain’s pathways, which lead to the child’s ability to complete more complex learning tasks.
  • Sensory play supports language development, cognitive growth, fine and gross motor skills, problem solving skills, and social interaction.
  • This type of play aids in developing and enhancing memory
  • Sensory play is great for calming an anxious or frustrated child
  • This helps children learn sensory attributes (hot, cold, sticky, dry)

Primary Circular Reactions : Involve infant's responses

to their own bodies.

SENSORIMOTOR

INTELLIGENCE

STAGES

  • Stage 1 (Birth to 1 Month): Stage of reflexes. Foundations of infant thought. Ex: thumb sucking, grasping, and listening.
  • Stage 2 (1 to 4 Months): Stage of first habits. Infants first learn to adapt to new surroundings by changing existing schemas to accommodate new schema. Ex: using different sucking technique when recognize nipple or pacifier.

Secondary Circular Reactions: Infant's responses to another person or other objects

  • Stage 3 (4 to 8 Months): Stage of communication and attachment bonding. Babies interact and respond to people and objects to establish knowledge of the world around them. Ex: A child clapping hands when seeing ice cream communicates joy to establishes bond with adult.

  • Stage 4 (8 to 12 Months): Babies initiate and repeat action to get what they want. Know about object permanence, understanding that a hidden object still exists.

Tertiary Circular Reactions: Infant's perform similar actions to get similar results

  • Stage 5 (12 to 18 Months): Creativity and experiment without thinking. Learning through play and trial and error. They are "little scientists" who experiment in order to see what works and does not work through trial anderror.
  • Stage 6 (18 to 24 Months): Demonstrate critical thinking to combine thoughts and actions to create symbols that represent objects and events in their world -- moving from conceptualization to creation.

Spoken Language in the First Two Years

SPOKEN LANGUAGE

  • Newborns communicate through reflexes such as cry and use certain facial expressions
  • Are familiar with rhythm, sounds and cadence (pattern)
  • Around 2 months, the start of meaningful noises begins; these noises including cooing, fussing, and crying
  • Between 6-10 months is when babbling starts with vowel and consonant sounds being repeated ; babbling will later predict vocabulary
  • Baby Signs
  • In the eyes of an infant, gestures such as pointing and reaching are forms of communication
  • 12 months is usually when the first spoken words are heard
  • Naming Explosion
  • Holophrase

SIGN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

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1. True or False: Stage 1- Stage of reflexes , lasts for 6 months.

3. When does the fetus begin hearing?

A) Two weeks after conception

B) Last trimester of pregnancy

C) As a newborn

D) Second Trimester of pregnancy

4. What stage of sensorimotor development is when the baby picks up a toy telephone and pretends to talk on it?

REVIEW

2. What are the forms of communication for a 1 year old?

a.Reflexive communication (cries, facial expressions)

b.Meaningful noises( cooing , fussing)

c.Babbling (repetitive sounds and syllables)

d.Comprehension of simple words

e.First spoken words that are recognizably part of the native language

5. Around what age does Babbling begin with infants?

a. 2 months

b. 1 year

c. 3-6 months

d. 6-10 months

Works Cited

Berger, K. S. (2019). Invitation to the life span. New York, NY: Worth Publishers, Macmillan Learning.

Educational Playcare. (2016, October 20). Why Sensory Play is Important for Development. Retrieved from https://www.educationalplaycare.com/blog/sensory-play-important-development/

Works Cited

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