Vtech Crawl and Learn, Bright Light Ball

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Sensory development in babies can be facilitated through toys that provide opportunities for them to experience sounds, visuals and textures. Adults can facilitate babies’ language development by playing with them, focussing on particular toys, reading books and naming everyday objects. Kicking and waving their arms while lying in their cot can lead them to discover that a kick can make a banging sound.

Babies who handle shapes and also fit them through a hole are learning to solve problems through touch and sight. Toys that name alphabet letters and everyday words satisfy young children’s need for repetition and rehearsal when practicing words and sounds. You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking. Once babies are either crawling or walking their mobility gives them more opportunities to explore their world. Infants first use the ulnar grasp where their fingers close against the palm when trying to hold an object.Babies can perceive input from different sensory systems in a unified way; for instance, vision and touch are closely coordinated when using a shape sorter. Social interaction is important for language development and turn-taking games are a fun and educational way for babies and young children to learn. Sound and movement attract a baby’s attention; if a toy is placed almost within reach of babies their movements become more animated. Press the chunky buttons to meet the dog, cat, bear and rabbit, learn numbers 1-5 and hear 4 songs sung by the animals and listen to 12 happy melodies.

The confidence to explore and discover new things develops during infancy and creates a healthy curiousity about the world throughout childhood. Spatial skills can also be enhanced when playing games that require concentration, quick responses and finely tuned motor skills.During the first year of life infants’ visual development is rapid and they begin to identify objects through shape, colour and texture. There are social skills involved in language acquisition such as realising that it is necessary to wait until the other person has finished speaking. From an early age babies use touch to investigate their world; as they learn to reach they begin to run their tongue and lips over toys and then look at them.

Babies begin to learn about conversational turn-taking from an early age; if a baby is babbling the adult waits for a pause and then talks to the baby. Young infants need to be presented with an adequate but not too great amount of sensory stimulation. The transparent colourful number buttons light up attracting baby and the spinning disk on top spins the cute turtle triggering fun responses. Infants also learn about the links between sights, sounds and feel of toys when these are demonstrated by adults.When young babies watch a mobile they are constantly moving their head, arms, legs and even their mouths in response to the movement of the toy. The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills. br /> From an early age babies use touch to investigate their world; as they learn to reach they begin to run their tongue and lips over toys and then look at them.