Watch this video about our sensory systems. I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video
Read Honig (2005) complete this handout as you read
Honig (2005)Read Honig (2007) complete this handout as you read
Honig(2007)Review the developmental milestones for a 4-month-old baby
Watch this video of a 4 month old
Answer the questions below, creating a unique response that includes information from both readings and the video:
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- Why are the senses and sensory input important for babies?
- What are important points infant teachers should remember about babies and their senses when working with babies?
- What can infant teachers do to support babies and their sensory processing?
- What developmental milestones is this baby demonstrating (social and emotional language/ communication, movement/ physical development, and cognitive)? How?
- What sensory information is this baby processing? How?
Reply to 1-2 other comments!
BRITTNEY MCCOY
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1)Babies learn through their senses. Hearing is a very important sense, babies love when parents speak “parentese” ( parents draw out their vowels and raise their voice an octave ).Hearing their parents speak this way wires words into the babies brain and allows the baby to feel loved and important.
2)Infant teachers should always remember babies are very sensitive, all of these different senses they are feeling are new to them. Teachers need to support the infants with these new experiences.
3)According to the article teachers are the gatekeepers to a child’s sensory stimulation. Teachers should offer sensory experiences in careful doses and always be observant of the child’s response.
4) The baby is able to roll over on to her stomach an also hold her head up.
5)The baby is touching the toys the baby also uses her mouth as a form of touch. The babies mouth is very sensitive to the different textures .
LESLY ZHAGNAY
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1)Senses and sentry inout are important for Babies because that’s how they will be able to learn as they grow, such as hearing which would be important in everyday life.l,.,
2) Some important points infant teachers should remember about babies and their senses when working with babies that every child is different and they will most likely need patience from the caregiver some may be new to it.
3)Infant teachers do to support babies and their sensory processing would be to encourage them and observe them to be able to help them if they need help. Like in the video the infants are playing with the toys and they stare.
4)The baby when he is sitting on his mom lap he is able to move his arms and hands to grab the book and flip the page.
5)All the infants in the video are able to grab the toys, some move around when they drop the toy as as well.
DIAMUNIQUE CHISOLM
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Senses and sensory input are important for babies because it helps support language, cognitive social/emotional development, problem-solving skills and fine/gross motor skills. Infant teachers should remember that their earliest learning happens through their senses. Infant teachers can have a bag of items that can help the children when they are either over or under-simulated. The baby is demonstrating physical development by her legs and arms and grabbing her toy and holding on to it. The baby is able to move her body and grab on to stuff. She also used her mouth as another way of touching her toy.
MARCELA MONTENEGRO
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1) Senses and sensory input are important for babies because they can explore and make sense of the world throw their senses. According to Honig (2007), Babies ‘earliest learning happens though their senses. Long before a newborn’s clenched first uncurls at about 3 to 4 months- allowing him to take hold to the world and grasp, pat, and bat at objects – a baby is learning though his sensory system: thought touch, hearing, sight, muscle sense, taste and smell” (16). In addition, the video “What are the 8 Basic Sensory Systems” shows that we have 8 sensory systems: tactile, olfactory, auditory, gustatory, visual, vestibular, proprioceptive and interoception, and all of them have their own functions.
2) Teachers should remember these points about babies and their senses: Honig states “Touch is a powerful learning tool for enhancing a baby’s early learning…Vision, during the first weeks of life, babies usually prefer being turned to the right to the left when laying down” (16). “Hearing, babies are quite sensitive to sounds… Teste-Smell- texture, tiny babies make upset faces when tasting bitter or sour substances…Stimulation combinations, babies enjoy it when you croon to them and cares them at the same time… The muscle sense, babies get internal stimulation signal as well as the usual outer sensory signals” (17)
3) In order to support babies and their sensory processing, teachers should offer sensory experiences in careful doses, accompanied by careful observations of babies’ responses. For instance, teacher’s faces should show loving expressions, because this is a most welcome visual stimulus for a baby. We should always remember that toddlers take pride in the budding autonomy and often want to feel themselves, for we can put out an assortment of small portions. In addition, teachers should keep in mind that gentle movements are best for babies, they grin with joy at the lovely sensations from kindness stimulations. (Honig, 2007)
4) The developmental milestones that the baby demonstrated in the video are:
Social and Emotional. – the baby smiled spontaneously when she listens her mother’s voice.
Language. – she was babbling to communicate
Cognitive, with the help of her mother, the baby reached for toys with one hand, she used her hands and eyes together, such as seeing a toy and reaching for it.
Physical. – The baby holds her head steady, unsupported, she pushes down on legs when she was on the floor. She was able to roll over from tummy to back, she could hold a toy and shake it. She brought her hands and a toy to her mouth, when lying on her stomach, she pushed up to elbows.
5) Baby is processing sensory information such as:
-Tactile, when she the baby reaches for toy with one hand
-Auditory, she processes sounds when she listens to the toys sounds and her mother’s voice
-Visual, when she follows moving things with eyes from side to side.
BRENDA JIMENEZ
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1. The senses and sensory input are important for babies because when they use their senses they learn who is who and distinguish the voices they’ve heard and learn about the world around them, sensory input is important because as Honig stated (2007) “…for developing bodily skills” (pg2)
2. Important points infant teachers should remember about babies and their senses when working with babies is to not overload them because their body won’t process all the input and become distressed.
3. What infant teachers can do to support babies and their sensory processing is observing what they have a positive respond to and add it to their routine but also limit the sensory stimulation.
4. The baby shows physical development by moving her arms and legs and she is able to roll over. She also demonstrated social emotional language/ communication by cooing and fusses, she also smiles when her mom was talking to her.
5. The baby is processing sensory information through auditory when her mom is speaking to her and the sound from the t.v. Visual by locating her mom when she was speaking to her and looking around (proprioception).
DANIELA
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1. Why are the senses and sensory input important for babies?
– The senses and sensory input are important for babies because babies are willing to learn and discover their world through the senses. According to Honig (2007) “By offering sensory experiences in careful doses, accompanied by careful observations of babies’s responses, you will help them manage sensory input in order to experience pleasure and interest in new experiences”.
2. What are important points infant teachers should remember about babies and their senses when working with babies?
– Teachers should remember about babies and their senses that baby’s earliest learning happens through their senses.
3. What can infant teachers do to support babies and their sensory processing?
– Infant teachers can support babies and their sensory processing by combining and implementing sensory stimulations with opportunities for developing bodily skills. Honig (2007) states “You are the gatekeeper for a young child’s sensory stimulation.”
4. What developmental milestones is this baby demonstrating (social and emotional language/ communication, movement/ physical development, and cognitive)? How?
-Social and emotional: She was smiling.
-Language/communication: She was babbling with expressions.
-Movement/physical development: She was able to roll over from tummy to back.
-Cognitive: She was reaching for her toy with one hand.
5. What sensory information is this baby processing? How?
-This baby is processing
Touch: when she had her toy in her hands
Sight: when she looked at her toys
Hearing: when the person who cared for her spoke to her and she recognizes the voice.
MADELIN FLORES
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1- senses and sentry are important because babies uses these in their lives everyday. Hearing is important because they hear new things everyday which helps them learn.
2- Infant teachers should remember about babies and their senses is that most babies are different. Not all babies learn fast, teachers should have lots of patiences for them to learn new things.
3- Infant teachers should encourage them and keep an eye on them to check if they need any help. In the video I saw that the babies would just stare at the toys.
4- the baby shows physical development because he is able to move his arms and grab the book to flip the first page of the book.
5- In the videos the babies are about to grab something and move around.
Sense and Sensory input are significant for babies since it helps support language, intellectual social/enthusiastic turn of events, critical thinking abilities and fine/gross motor abilities. Infant teacher ought to recollect that their soonest learning occurs through their faculties. Baby instructors can have a sack of things that can help the youngsters when they are either finished or under-reproduced. The infant is showing actual improvement by her legs and arms and getting her toy and clutching it. The child can move her body and take hold of stuff. She additionally utilized her mouth as another method of contacting her toy.
Selanie — Thanks for your comment in this activity. Babies learn through their senses — they take in information through their senses & piecing that info together helps them to understand & make sense of the world around them. Infant teachers should know that babies learn through their senses. I wonder, how will infant teachers know if babies are overstimulated by sensory input? I wonder, what are specific activities or materials infant teachers should use to support babies to learn about their world through their senses? I wonder, how does your comment specifically connect to the readings & video in this activity. In addition to her motor movements, I wonder, what other cognitive, social/ emotional, and language/ communication milestones did the baby in the video demonstrate? How?
1. The senses and sensory input are important for babies because it is their connection to the world.
2. Teachers should remember that babies are learning through their senses. Touch, sound and taste are powerful senses that determine how babies process what is going on around them.
3. Teachers can support babies by encouraging them when using their senses. They can adjust the environment through touch and sound, as an example, so that the infant is comfortable to explore and grow.
4. The baby rolls over and propping herself up on her elbows. This is a developmental milestone in movement and physical activity, to be able to follow the toy. The child is also cooing and smiling when hearing her mother’s voice. This is social and emotional development.
5. The baby is using its sense of touch and vision as well as movement.