The Early Years
Primitive Reflexes: The Answer Behind W-Sitting and How to Fix it
Children have various positions that they sit and play in. One of the positions we see frequently is call “W-sitting.” This position is where a child sits with their bottom completely on the floor in between their legs, knees bent, and feet splayed out to the side. This tends to be a position of choice for children who have poor trunk stability or strength.
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Integrated Learning Strategies, Learning Corner (2016)
Tummy Time Exercises to Prevent Learning Delays in your Child
Tummy time is essential for every child’s future learning development and all parents should encourage tummy time activities as much as possible. The trick is incorporating the “right” types of tummy time exercises that will positively engage your baby without tears while also building the connection between you and your child.
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Integrated Learning Strategies, Learning Corner (2017)
The Importance of Crawling to Learning and Motor Development
The act of crawling helps to develop the two hemispheres of the brain and strengthens the ability to store and retrieve information. It promotes the maturation of the corpus callosum and reinforces the connection between the cerebellum and the frontal lobes. The ability to use both hands, feet, eyes, and ears harmoniously can also be credited, in part, to the crawling reflex.
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Integrated Learning Strategies, Learning Corner (2016)
Brain Development of Children from 0-6 years
An astonishing amount of human brain development takes place during a short period of time during child development. These early years are a critical period in your human development and specifically your child’s development as your child learns an incredible number of skills and amount of information that they’ll need to function throughout the rest of their lives.
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Adam & Mila (2017)
Primitive Reflexes: How Retained Primitive Reflexes are Holding My Child Back in Learning and Motor Development
We are all either born with primitive reflexes or have them when we were in our mother’s womb, but as we grow older, primitive reflexes should integrate or “go to sleep” to make way for other developmental milestones like crawling, walking, grasping and talking. When primitive reflexes do not integrate and are retained, they could cause a whole slew of problems for your child or student that can have huge impacts on their learning and motor development.
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Integrated Learning Strategies, Learning Corner (2018)
Speech and Language Tools for Building Pronunciation, Articulation, Receptive and Expressive Language
Speech and language skills are by far one of the most important milestones and are one of the precursors to a child eventually reading and writing. Understanding and remembering what a person is saying, using the correct pronunciation and articulation to say words and sentences, communicating with others, and eventually getting thoughts down on paper are all critical steps for your child’s speech and language development.
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Integrated Learning Strategies, Learning Corner (2017)
Hand-eye Coordination in 0-18 month olds
Hand-eye coordination is the cooperation between the eye and hand in order to guide both. While newborns are capable of reflexive grabbing, they are not yet able to coordinate between what they see and the use of their hands. Learning this critical ability engages both your child’s mental and physical development, and is a crucial component of both.
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Spatial awareness activities to help your child explore the world
So what is spatial awareness? In short, spacial awareness is awareness of yourself in any given space, in relation to all other people and objects in that space. As adults, we practice spatial awareness all the time without thinking about it. It’s how we avoid running into things, as well as how we navigate. Young children are still learning to develop spatial awareness, and it takes time.
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When should your baby start walking?
Like every part of your baby’s development, there are milestones that give a general idea of what signals to expect at every stage that your baby is learning to walk. Typical stages of baby physical development are scooting, pulling up, crawling, walking with help, standing without help, and finally, walking. So, when do babies start walking? It is different for every child.
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10 toddler balance milestones that predict future quality of life
What feels natural to us is actually a complex process where large groups of muscles work in harmony to maintain postural control. It dictates our ability to do almost everything, from sitting and standing to walking and kicking a ball. Balancing will be the foundation for your child’s athletic skills as well as many other important abilities,.
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Childs Play: Developmental Milestones related to Learning through Play
Playing with objects is how babies and toddlers explore and learn about the world around them. In addition to being fun and enjoyable learning through play is essential during early childhood to teach the baby problem solving skills and to practice social interactions.
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Teach your baby the Pincer Grasp and related fine motor developmental milestones
The process where your baby learns to master the movements of the hand, mouth and toes are part of what is commonly known as fine motor skills. Discover which activities will help your child evolve from the grasping reflex to mastering the art of picking up tiny objects – aka. The Pincer Grasp!
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