Stimulation for infants
BABIES are born with the inclination to learn.However,ithastobedonewiththe right stimulations. Babies are stimulated through activities that encourage them to explore the world with their senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.
Therefore, a learning space is essential as the greatest impact comes from a child’s immediate environment.
The children’s house is a reputable preschool that offers programmes for infants aged three to 12 months at the Ara Damansara and Bruas branches to provide the right learning environment for babies.
It adopts an award-winning infant curriculum developed by Learning Vision, Singapore’s leading provider of high-quality employer-sponsored preschool services.
The children’s house aims to develop children’s cognitive, social and emotional needs through its infant programme.
At The children’s house, the infant programme is holistic and emphasises the development of infants’ physical, sensorimotor, perceptual, cognitive, language and social-emotional skills during the optimum engaging period that is in the first three years of life.
The three distinctive features of the infant programme:
Caregiving – The programme emphasises respectful, responsive and reciprocal interactions between caregivers and infants. Careful attention is given to promote the infant’s well-being and comfort.
Attachment – The children’s house believes that infants develop and thrive when given a nurturing, loving and responsive environment. A sense of trust, security and attachment is nurtured, encouraging the development of self-identity and self-esteem in infants.
Play – Playtime creates opportunity and the context for infants to observe and learn about the world. This enhances cognitive abilities and language skills, improves physical abilities, and helps infants know how to deal with various emotions and what they are capable of. Through playtimes, they also learn to become active participants in the social world.
The environment at The children’s house is carefully designed, prepared and fully equipped with age-appropriate materials and toys with a variety of learning corners.
The Baby Sensory Play corner promotes sensory stimulation focusing on auditory, visual and tactile learning.
The Baby Art programme exposes infants to activities that help to promote hand and finger control and coordination through artistic exploration and experimentation while the Baby Music encourages infants to listen and discover musical elements.
The Baby Read is where language activities are carried out daily to ensure infants gain adequate language exposure.
The Baby Gym programme, facilitated by caregivers, allows little ones to crawl, climb and roll safely on soft gym blocks to develop their physical strength.
For more information, www.thechildrenshouse.com.my.