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Building Baby’s Brain: How Meaningful

Experiences Promote Language and Literacy

Development

Photo credit: Rubber Ball

Presented by Nikki Darling-Kuria

Copyright © 2011 by ZERO TO THREE

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Objectives

• Provide an overview of brain development.

• Review the 5 R’s of brain development.

• Discuss the effects of early relationships on brain development.

• Discuss the importance of meaningful experiences in early language and literacy.


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Ground Rules

• Going out on a limb

• Everyone is right, but only partially

• What’s said here stays here

• Do what you need to do-we’re adults

• Silence background noises

• Remain actively engaged and present


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Building Baby’s Brain…What Do We Know?

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Question:

Brain development begins at birth.

Answer? Photo credit: Rubber Ball

Building Baby’s Brain: True or False


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Question:

Babies are born with the ability to learn all the languages in the world.

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Question:

Reading to newborn infants is the best way to help them learn to read.

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Question:

Using flashcards with infants helps them get ready to succeed in school.

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Question:

Boys and girls brain’s develop exactly the same.

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Question:

The brain stops learning after age 5.

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Question:

There are window’s of opportunity and if we don’t learn something during that window, the chance is lost forever.

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Key Ideas About Brain Development

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Effects of Relationships on Brain Development

Exposure to negative experiences influences the brain’s development.



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Effects of Relationships on Brain Development


Babies and toddlers thrive when someone adores them, pays attention to them, and figures out and responds to what they are communicating.


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The 5 R’s of Healthy Brain Development

1. Relationships

2. Responsive Interactions

3. Respect

4. Routines

5. RepetitionPhoto credit: Rubber Ball


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Building the 5 R’s to Support Healthy Development

Relationships Listen attentively.

Comment on what the parent is doing well.

Seek to understand the parents’ perspective.

Try to understand the meaning of behavior.

Show your delight in the child.

Have fun together.

Use words and actions to show your understanding of the child’s feelings.

The R Strategies to Use With ParentsStrategies Parents and Professionals Can Use with Young Children


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Responsive Interactions

Ask the parent how you can help him/her.

Share in parent’s excitement.

Empathize with parents’ concerns.

Offer referrals for services the parent is interested in that your organization does not provide.

When a baby cries or a toddler tantrums try to discover what might help – feeding, holding, soothing, singing, or letting the child have a minute to self-soothe are some options to try out.

Show your interest and delight in what the child is doing.

Meet the child’s needs for feeding, rest, sleeping, diapering and play.


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Respect Invite parents to share their interests, hopes, goals and values with you.

Include parents in developing service plans for themselves and their families.

Ask parents to share with you what they know about their children.

Find out about any family or cultural celebrations that are important to the parent.

Make eye contact with children.

Sit or squat at their level when playing and speaking with them.

Follow a child’s preferences. They will let you know which foods they prefer, when they are full and which toys they like to play with.

Offer a small number of toys that are matched to the child’s interests and abilities.


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Routines Ask the parent to describe a typical day for themselves and their child.

Ask the parent to show you how he/she carries out caregiving routines such as diapering, feeding, bathing, nap and bedtime.

Help the parent establish daily routines if such assistance is needed.

Be predictable in keeping appointments and following up on plans.

Establish routines for waking, diapering/toileting, feeding, bathing, playtime, naptime and bedtime.

While providing routine care, laugh, play, talk, and sing. Pleasurable interactions during caregiving routines helps build other R’s such as relationships, respect and responsive interactions.


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Repetition Learning takes place over time. If you are introducing new ideas or skills, be prepared to repeat them.

Give parents time to repeat new behaviors. It can take months for new behaviors to replace old ones and become natural.

Repeat the same words, songs, and stories to help babies learn.

Provide repeated opportunities to practice the same skills

Depending on the child’s developmental abilities, encourage repeated attempts to do things like smile, reach, make sounds, talk, roll over, stand, walk, pick up small objects and play with toys.



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Meaningful Experiences Build Language


Children learn with their social context and their nurturing

connections with parents and consistent caregivers.

Creating meaningful experiences establishes the

foundation from which concrete learning emerges.


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Creating Meaningful Experiences


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Meaningful Experiences Build Language



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Helping children develop complex language skills is one of the most meaningful ways of passing on cultural

and family beliefs and practices from one

generation to the next.


Learning Within Social Context


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Developing Language and Literacy Skills For Life

Receptive and expressive language skills children develop are dependent

upon the exposure they’ve had to spoken language since birth.


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QUESTIONS?

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